Playing for Time (1980)
September 30, 1980
Drama, Music, History, TV Movie
2h 30m
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When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Daniel Mann
- Fania Fenelon Vanessa Redgrave
- Alma Rose Jane Alexander
- Mala Maud Adams
- Olga Christine Baranski
- Etalina Robin Bartlett
- Elzvieta Marisa Berenson
- Paulette Verna Bloom
- Charlotte Lenore Harris
Recommendations
Keywords
- concentration camp
- world war ii
- auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
- orchestra
- based on memoir or autobiography