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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.
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.
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.
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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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 Vanessa Redgrave stars in this Golden Globe nominated-film. Female prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors. In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Overview. 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. Fania Fénelon. Author. Joseph Sargent.