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Playing for Time (1980)

Directed by Joseph Sargent, Daniel Mann

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.

Length 150 minutes

Actors

Vanessa Redgrave | Jane Alexander | Maud Adams | Christine Baranski | Robin Bartlett | Marisa Berenson | Verna Bloom | Donna Haley | Lenore Harris | Mady Kaplan | Will Lee | Anna Levine | Viveca Lindfors | Melanie Mayron | Marcell Rosenblatt | Max Wright | Shirley Knight | Elaine Bromka | Clarence Felder | Marta Heflin | Martha Schlamme | Faith Catlin | Dorothy Sherwood | Grace Stover | Sidney Sandness | Thomas La Fleur | Zvee Scooler | Tom Everett | Mary Kay Fager | Mary McGonical | Phyllis Vanier | Monica Merriman | Robert Lucey | Lorraine Lucey | Lee Jay Nelson | Robert Dannon | Peter Phillips | Spencer Waldron | John Griesemer | Huggy-Bear Ferris | Al Butler | Jeffrey Marcus | Rick Washburn