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. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon. Playing for Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp , where she and a group of classical ...
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Sep 30, 1980 · Based on a true story, this 1980 drama follows the life of Fania Fenelon, a Jewish singer who joins the camp orchestra to survive the Holocaust. The movie features Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams and other stars, and won four Primetime Emmys.
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- Drama, Music
- Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
- 1980-09-30
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- Joseph Sargent, Daniel Mann
A drama based on the true story of a Jewish woman in Auschwitz who played in a women's orchestra. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fania Fenelon, who faced the dilemma of collaborating with the Nazis or resisting them.
- Daniel Mann
- Viveca Lindfors
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. 288 IMDb 7.3 2 h 28 min 1980. 13+. Music Videos and Concerts · Drama · Compelling · Harrowing.
Playing for Time. 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. After ...
- 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.
