''Hanna'' is a 2011

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film directed by

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. The film stars

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as the

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, a girl raised in the wilderness of northern Finland by her father, an ex-

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operative ( Eric Bana), who trains her as an assassin.

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portrays a senior CIA agent who tries to track down and eliminate the girl and her father. The soundtrack was written by

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. ''Hanna'' was released in North America in April 2011 and in Europe in May 2011. It received generally positive reviews. Reviewers praised the performances of Ronan and Blanchett as well as the action sequences and themes.

Plot

Hanna Heller is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, Erik, in rural northern Finland. Since the age of two, Hanna has been trained by him, an ex-

operative from

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, to be a skilled assassin. He teaches her

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and drills her in

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. Erik knows a secret that cannot become public and Marissa Wiegler, a senior CIA officer, seeks to eliminate him. Erik has trained Hanna with the intent to kill Marissa. One night, she tells him she is "ready" to face their enemies. Erik digs up a

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that will alert the CIA to their presence. Although he warns Hanna that a confrontation with Marissa will be fatal for either her or Marissa, he leaves the final decision to her and she activates the beacon. Erik leaves, instructing her to meet him in Berlin. Hanna is seized by special forces and taken to an underground CIA complex where a suspicious Marissa sends a

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to interrogate Hanna when she asks for her by name. While talking to the double, Hanna starts to cry and embraces her tightly, which makes her captors uneasy. They send guards to sedate her. As they enter the cell, Hanna kills the double along with some guards and escapes, discovering that she is in

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. Hanna meets Sebastian and Rachel, who are on a camper-van holiday with their children, Sophie and Miles, and stows away in the vehicle on a ferry to Spain, seeking to reach Berlin. The family is kind to her, and she and Sophie become friends: Hanna even tells her about the Berlin rendezvous and they kiss. Marissa hires Isaacs, a sadistic former agent, to capture Hanna while other agents are searching for Erik. She kills Hanna's maternal grandmother after failing to learn anything useful from her. Isaacs and two skinheads have discovered from the Moroccan hotelier with whom Hanna escaped and trail them. Cornering her and the family sometime down the road, Isaacs attacks but Hanna manages to escape after a vicious fight. Marissa interrogates the family and discovers from Miles that Hanna is heading to Berlin. The family is never seen again. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Erik fights off an attempted assassination and tries but fails to kill Marissa. Arriving at the rendezvous in an abandoned Berlin amusement park, Hanna meets Knepfler, an eccentric magician and friend of Erik's who lives there. Before Erik arrives, Marissa and Isaacs appear. Hanna escapes, but overhears comments that suggest Erik is not her biological father. Hanna then goes to her grandmother's empty apartment where she finds Erik, who admits he is not her biological father but loves her as his own. He explains that he once recruited pregnant women into a CIA program where their children's DNA was enhanced to create

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s. After the project was shut down, its subjects – all except Hanna – were eliminated. Marissa and Isaacs arrive; Erik acts as a distraction to allow Hanna to escape. He kills Isaacs, but is shot dead by Marissa, who then returns to Knepfler's house in the abandoned amusement park and finds Hanna, who has just discovered Knepfler hanging dead upside-down, having been tortured to death by Isaacs. Hanna flees taking one of the arrows used to kill Knepfler. After Hanna flees, she is cornered by Marissa. In a final confrontation, Hanna turns her back to Marissa who shoots at her; but Hanna wounds Marissa by shooting an arrow at her. A now-staggering Marissa, pursued by Hanna, trips, leaving her badly injured. Hanna picks up Marissa's gun and uses it to kill her with two shots — a method she had previously used while hunting a deer at the film's beginning.

Cast

as Hanna * Eric Bana as Erik Heller *

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as Johanna Zadek *

as Marissa Wiegler * Paris Arrowsmith as CIA Tech #1 *

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as Lewis * Tim Beckmann as Walt * Paul Birchard as Bob * Christian Malcolm as Head of Ops * Jamie Beamish as Burton * Tom Hodgkins as Monitor * Vincent Montuel as Camp G Doctor #1 * Nathan Nolan as Camp G Doctor #2 *

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as False Marissa *

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as Sophie * Aldo Maland as Miles *

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as Rachel *

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as Sebastian * Mohamed Majd as Moroccan Hotel Owner *

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as Isaacs * Sebastian Hülk as Titch *

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as Razor * Mathias Harrebye-Brandt as Danish Policeman (as Mathias Harrebye Brandt) *

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as Feliciano * Marc Soto as Feliciano's Brother * Gudrun Ritter as Katrin Zadek *

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as Knepfler * Rose Wakesho as Linda

Production

The film was co-produced by the American Holleran Company and German

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, with financial support from various German film funds and the main distributor,

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, which holds the copyright to the film.

Development

The film's story and script were written by

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while a student at

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. He wrote the original story and script on spec, and finalized the script in 2006, with David Farr providing later changes.Foucus Features: ''Hanna''
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and

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were previously attached to direct the film, before it was confirmed that Joe Wright would direct, after Ronan prompted the producers to consider him.

Filming

Most of the filming was done at Studio Babelsberg in

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, but locations also included Lake

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in Kuusamo, Finland, several German locations (including

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, the water bridge at Magdeburg, Köhlbrandbrücke and

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, and various sites in Berlin, such as

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, Görlitzer Bahnhof and Spreepark), as well as

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and

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. Temperatures during the Finland shoot sometimes fell as low as , but Ronan said "Finland did bring out the

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aspects of the story. We were shooting on a frozen lake, surrounded by pine trees covered in snow".

Themes and motifs

Reviewers remarked that the setting and style of ''Hanna'' significantly depart from a typical action movie.Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg, Jeff Cannata. ''

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'' (10 April 2011) Christy Lemire (AP critic and host of Ebert Presents at the Movies), Matt Atchity (editor-in-chief of Rottentomatoes.com) and Ben Mankiewicz (host of Turner Classic Movies) on TYT Network (7 April 2011) According to the official

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, the film has "elements of dark

s" woven into an "adventure

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, the director, has said that the movie's theme is a "fantasy" about "overcoming the dark side" during the "rites of passage" of adolescent maturation when a child transforms and "has to go into the world".John Hiscock The Telegraph (22 Apr 2011)
/ref> He said that he was influenced by personal exposure every day as he grew up to "violent, dark, cautionary fairy tales" that "prepare children for the future obstacles in the wider world", as well as his "deep love for the mystical qualities of

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movies", by the patterns of narrative that he prefers because of his

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, and by working as a child in his parents'

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company. In an interview with

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, Wright acknowledged

as a major influence on ''Hanna'' and also pointed to

' score: "You can expect an extraordinarily loud, thumping, deeply

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y score that will not disappoint". The music, including ''The Devil Is In The Beats'' and ''The Devil Is In The Details'', underscores the movie's style, recalling

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's ''

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'' with musical motifs consistent with Wright's "fairy tale theme" of childhood innocence confronting the modern "synthetic" world. Several reviewers have commented that the movie has a hyper-stylized Kubrickian tone, reminiscent of ''A Clockwork Orange''. The "Kubrick-esque" style includes Isaacs' "gleeful sadism... at times darkly comedic,"James Berardinelli. Reelviews. (April 5, 2011)
/ref> a whistling villain reminiscent of Alex DeLarge. Joe Wright's "love of fairy tales and David Lynch movies" was seen as blending ''A Clockwork Orange'' and the work of the

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judged it to be a "surreal fairy tale" with "omnipresent symbolism". Matt Goldberg said it was "an effective and surreal dark fairy tale"... ..."with a dreamlike sensibility... ...Everything in the picture is slightly askew and provides immediacy to Hanna’s offbeat coming-of-age tale... ...a film that refuses to exist solely in the realm of reality or fairy tale... ...'gritty' realism simply isn’t worthy of the story he’s trying to tell." Fairy tale motifs are strewn through the film.Todd McCarthy. Hanna: Movie Review March 30, 2011
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/ref> In the "tightly-edited patchwork of visual iconography, allusion and symbolism"Kofi Outlaw. Hanna review. Screenrant.(Apr 8, 2011)
/ref> Wiegler is equated with the

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or the queen in ''

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''. "Classic fairy tale movie

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s abound;" for example, the camera spins in obvious circles as Hanna makes her escape from the underground government facility early in the film, "just as the young heroine’s world is spinning out of control."

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found the fairy tale mythology "unsubtle". Conversely, some reviewers did not comment on the fairy tale elements, and others did so with expressive reservation. Kyle Munkittrick of ''Discover'' magazine notes that Hanna is a "

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hero". Despite being

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to have "high intelligence, muscle mass, and no pity", she is still a good-natured person. He says Hanna "symbolizes the contest between genetics and environment", or, "perhaps more familiarly, nature versus nurture".

Reception

Critical response

''Hanna'' received a 71% rating on review aggregator website

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, based on 235 reviews, and an average rating of 6.86/10. The site's critical consensus states: "Fantastic acting and crisply choreographed action sequences propel this unique, cool take on the revenge thriller." On

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, the film received a

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score of 65/100 based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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of ''

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'' said that ''Hanna'' is "an exuberantly crafted chase thriller that pulses with energy from its adrenaline-pumping first minutes to its muted bang of a finish".

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gave the film three and a half stars out of four, commenting "Wright combines his two genres into a stylish exercise that perversely includes some sentiment and insight".

of ''

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'', on the other hand, gave the film two stars out of five, stating "With its wicked-witch performance from Cate Blanchett, its derivative premise, its bland Europudding location work and some frankly outrageous boredom, this will test everyone's patience." Kenneth Turan, of the ''

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'', stated that the film "starts off like a house afire but soon burns itself out", adding that even though the film is " essed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint".

Box office

According to ''

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'', ''Hanna'' came in second place at the U.S. box office in its first weekend behind '' Hop''. When the film closed on 7 July 2011, it had grossed $40.3 million in North America and $25.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $65.3 million.

Awards and nominations

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album features a score composed by the British

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duo,

TV series

In March 2017, David Farr announced that he would be writing a TV series based on the film. On May 23, 2017,

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officially ordered the series to production. The first episode was made available on Amazon Video as a time-limited preview on February 3, 2019. The full eight-episode first season was released on March 29, 2019. In April 2019, Amazon renewed the series for a second season which premiered July 3, 2020. In July 2020, the series was renewed for a third season which premiered November 24, 2021.

References

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