Inside Hana's Suitcase
This adaptation of Karen Levine's internationally acclaimed best-seller
Hana's Suitcase is one of few films about the Holocaust in the past 20 years that is suitable for children.
It tells the present-day story of a group of Japanese children who, with the help of their passionate and tenacious teacher, Fumiko Ishioka, are able to solve the mystery of a young Czech girl, Hana Brady, whose name appears on an old battered suitcase from the Auschwitz Museum.
The film follows Fumiko's search to discover the details of Hana's life, leading to the discovery of her older brother in Toronto and the discovery that as children, they had been incarcerated in Theresienstadt after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia.
This remarkable story is brought to life through the voices of three groups of children from Japan, Canada and the Czech Republic, who act as omniscient narrators and make the story their own, seamlessly transporting us through 70 years of history, and back and forth across three continents.
