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Playing for Time

Playing for Time1980

★6.9150 minDramaMusicHistory

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.

Director

Daniel Mann Joseph Sargent

Writer

Arthur Miller Fania Fénelon

Score

Stars

Vanessa Redgrave Jane Alexander Maud Adams

Cast43

Vanessa Redgrave
as Fania Fenelon
Jane Alexander
as Alma Rose
Maud Adams
as Mala
Christine Baranski
as Olga
Robin Bartlett
as Etalina
Marisa Berenson
as Elzvieta
Verna Bloom
as Paulette
D
Donna Haley
as Katrina
Lenore Harris
as Charlotte
M
Mady Kaplan
as Varya
Will Lee
as Shmuel
Anna Thomson
as Michou
Viveca Lindfors
as Frau Schmidt
Melanie Mayron
as Marianne
M
Marcell Rosenblatt
as Giselle
Max Wright
as Dr. Josef Mengele
Shirley Knight
as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Elaine Bromka
as Tchiakowska
C
Clarence Felder
as Commandant Kramer
Marta Heflin
as Esther
M
Martha Schlamme
as Woman on train
F
Faith Catlin
as Liesle
D
Dorothy Sherwood
as Berta
G
Grace Stover
as Greta
S
Sidney Sandness
as Asthmatic Man
T
Thomas La Fleur
as Boy Scout
Zvee Scooler
as First Chessplayer
Tom Everett
as Second Chess Player
M
Mary Kay Fager
as Polish Woman
M
Mary McGonical
as Tattooer
P
Phyllis Vanier
as Blockawa
M
Monica Merriman
as Canadian Girl
R
Robert Lucey
as Ladislaus
L
Lorraine Lucey
as Ladislaus' Mother
L
Lee Jay Nelson
as Edek
R
Robert Dannon
as SS Officer
P
Peter Phillips
as British Radio Man
S
Spencer Waldron
as SS Sergeant
John Griesemer
as German Trooper
H
Huggy-Bear Ferris
as The Executioner
A
Al Butler
as Nazi Officer (uncredited)
J
Jeffrey Marcus
as Rose's Husband (uncredited)
Rick Washburn
as Prisoner (uncredited)

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