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    Playing for Time

    1980 · Drama · 2h 30m

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  1. 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 ...

    • Szygzy Productions
  2. 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.

    • (2.8K)
    • Drama, Music
    • Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
    • 1980-09-30
  3. 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 being sent to the ...

    • (73)
    • Daniel Mann
    • Drama
    • Vanessa Redgrave
  4. Read More. 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
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  6. Synopsis. 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.

    • (46)
    • 1980
    • Fania Fenelon; Alma Rose; Mala
    • Joseph Sargent, Daniel Mann
  7. Details. Cast and Crew. Joseph Sargent. Vanessa Redgrave. Jane Alexander. Maud Adams. 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.

  8. 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. Daniel Mann. Director. Joseph Sargent. Director. Arthur Miller. Writer.

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