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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 ...
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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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.
A film based on the true story of Fania Fenelon, a pianist and singer who joined the camp's orchestra to survive the Holocaust. The movie explores the moral dilemma of performing for the Nazis and the bond among the women musicians.
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+.
A drama based on the true story of Fania Fenelon, a French Jew who played in a women's orchestra in Auschwitz. The film explores the moral dilemmas and conflicts of the musicians who performed for their captors and fellow prisoners.
