Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Roberta Grossman's documentary tracks the tragic story of a young woman's ill-fated humanitarian quest into Nazi-held Hungary

Blessed Is the Match" is not only the title of a solemn, respectful documentary about Israeli Holocaust martyr Hannah Senesh, it is also the opening of the poem that helped make her famous. "Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame" is the first line of that brief poem, a tribute to self-sacrifice written by Senesh in 1944, just days before she was captured in Nazi-held Hungary. She had parachuted in a few days earlier, one of a group of idealistic Palestinians who were desperate to rescue Jews headed for concentration camps. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (2796 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 6 febbraio 2009