SummaryThe delivery of a battered suitcase to Furniko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levine's best-selling book Hana's Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hanna Brady's name painted on it. Larry Weinstein's masterful film follows Furniko's search to discover t... Read More
Directed By:Larry Weinstein
Written By:Karen Levine, Thomas Wallner
Inside Hana's Suitcase
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Apr 17, 2012
75
What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past.
Apr 17, 2012
75
Although their responses too often seem rehearsed, their innocence is touching and redemptive.
Apr 17, 2012
75
In the end, what makes Inside Hana's Suitcase so powerful is the most traditional technique of all: authentic and eloquent storytelling by memorable characters.
Apr 17, 2012
60
A documentary saga of heartbreaking concentration-camp horrors, Inside Hana's Suitcase attempts to preserve Holocaust memories through frustratingly fractured means.
Apr 18, 2012
50
Subject matter this powerfully charged shouldn't feel like a study aid.
Apr 17, 2012
50
It would be odd not to feel something about Hana and the Brady family, but Inside Hana's Suitcase feels more like a historical teaching aid than like a great movie.
Apr 17, 2012
25
A film relating a story of the Holocaust is destined to provoke a number of adjectives, but "cloying" shouldn't be one of them.
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Production Company:
- Téléfilm Canada
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
- Rogers Group of Funds
- Rhombus Media
- In Film Praha
- Canadian Television Fund
- Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC)
- Rogers Documentary Fund
- Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
- Xenophile Media
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
- Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)
Release Date:Apr 18, 2012
Duration:1 h 28 m
Awards
Genie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
