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  • 2012
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2012
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 33 m
Inside Hana's Suitcase

Summary The 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 d...

Directed By: Larry Weinstein

Written By: Karen Levine, Thomas Wallner

  • 2012
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2012
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Inside Hana's Suitcase

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary The 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 d...

Directed By: Larry Weinstein

Written By: Karen Levine, Thomas Wallner

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
59
43% Positive
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43% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
59
43% Positive
3 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
14% Negative
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75
Apr 17, 2012
What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past.
By Ray Conlogue FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 17, 2012
Although their responses too often seem rehearsed, their innocence is touching and redemptive.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 17, 2012
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.
By Loren King FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 17, 2012
A documentary saga of heartbreaking concentration-camp horrors, Inside Hana's Suitcase attempts to preserve Holocaust memories through frustratingly fractured means.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 18, 2012
Subject matter this powerfully charged shouldn't feel like a study aid.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 17, 2012
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.
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25
Apr 17, 2012
A film relating a story of the Holocaust is destined to provoke a number of adjectives, but "cloying" shouldn't be one of them.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

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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 33 m
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Awards

Genie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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