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Playing for Time

70 %|Sep 30, 1980|Drama, Music, History, TV Movie

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.

Featured Crew

Daniel Mann
Director
Joseph Sargent
Director
Arthur Miller
Writer
Fania Fénelon
Author
Ruth Morley
Costume Design
Linda Yellen
Producer
Brad Fiedel
Original Music Composer
Robert Gundlach
Art Direction

Cast

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Vanessa Redgrave
Fania Fenelon
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Verna Bloom
Paulette
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Lenore Harris
Charlotte
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Will Lee
Shmuel
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Viveca Lindfors
Frau Schmidt
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Max Wright
Dr. Josef Mengele
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Shirley Knight
Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
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Elaine Bromka
Tchiakowska
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Clarence Felder
Commandant Kramer
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Martha Schlamme
Woman on train
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Sidney Sandness
Asthmatic Man
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Zvee Scooler
First Chessplayer
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Tom Everett
Second Chess Player
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Mary Kay Fager
Polish Woman
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Monica Merriman
Canadian Girl
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Robert Lucey
Ladislaus
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Lorraine Lucey
Ladislaus' Mother
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Robert Dannon
SS Officer
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Peter Phillips
British Radio Man
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Spencer Waldron
SS Sergeant
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John Griesemer
German Trooper
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Huggy-Bear Ferris
The Executioner
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Al Butler
Nazi Officer (uncredited)
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Jeffrey Marcus
Rose's Husband (uncredited)
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Rick Washburn
Prisoner (uncredited)