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Playing for Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon's autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon.
- Drama Music
Sep 30, 1980 · Playing for Time: Directed by Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent. With Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski. Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
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- Drama, Music
- Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
- 1980-09-30
Fania Fenelon (Vanessa Redgrave), a classical pianist and singer in Paris, is arrested during the Nazi occupation for her support of the French underground resistance.
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- Daniel Mann
- Drama
- Vanessa Redgrave
Multi-award winning dramatization based on the memoirs of Fania Fenelon, a French Jew who became a member of a women's orchestra inside Auschwitz, playing music for their Nazi captors as well as for fellow inmates marching to their deaths.
- Daniel Mann
- Viveca Lindfors
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.
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- Joseph Sargent, Daniel Mann
Playing for Time. 1980 · 2 hr 29 min. PG-13. Drama. Based on real events, female prisoners in the Auschwitz death camp are spared from death, in return for performing music for their Nazi captors. Subtitles: English. Starring: Vanessa Redgrave Christina Baranski. Directed by: Daniel Mann.
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Playing for Time. Arthur Miller's vision of the Holocaust, based on the memoirs of Auschwitz survivor Fania Fenelon (Vanessa Redgrave). Jane Alexander, Shirley Knight, Marisa Berenson....
