Vanessa Redgrave
Fania Fenelon
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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.
- Drama Music
Playing for time is an impressive television film about Fania Fenelon, a women who survived Auschwitz by performing in a bizarre camp orchestra. That orchestra 'played to gain time' to live on, not knowing how much longer they had, while fellow concentration camp inmates were marched to death. Excellent performances by Vanessa Redgrave as ...
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- Szygzy Productions
- Joseph Sargent, Daniel Mann
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. The controversial casting of Vanessa Redgrave, making...
- Daniel Mann
- Viveca Lindfors
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
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- Daniel Mann
Sep 30, 1980 · Playing for Time won Emmy Awards for Redgrave, scriptwriter Arthur Miller, supporting actress Jane Alexander, and as Outstanding Dramatic Special. Redgrave's husband Tony Richardson was the original director, but he bowed out and was replaced by Joseph Sargent., who himself was replaced by Daniel Mann (the only one credited)
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Playing for Time (movie) Playing for Time. (movie) Playing for Time is a made-for-television movie about the Holocaust. Arthur Miller wrote the movie. He based it on Fania Fénelon 's true book about her life, called The Musicians of Auschwitz. [1] The movie was on television on CBS in 1980.
