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2026 · Music · Drama
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Film / 1980
Playing for Time
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Vanessa RedgraveFania Fenelon
Jane AlexanderAlma Rose
Maud AdamsMala
Christine BaranskiOlga
Robin BartlettEtalina
Marisa BerensonElzvieta
Verna BloomPaulette
Donna HaleyKatrina
Lenore HarrisCharlotte
Mady KaplanVarya
Will LeeShmuel
Anna ThomsonMichou
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Viveca LindforsFrau Schmidt
Melanie MayronMarianne
Marcell RosenblattGiselle
Max WrightDr. Josef Mengele
Shirley KnightFrau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Elaine BromkaTchiakowska
Clarence FelderCommandant Kramer
Marta HeflinEsther
Martha SchlammeWoman on train
Faith CatlinLiesle
Dorothy SherwoodBerta
Grace StoverGreta
Sidney SandnessAsthmatic Man
Thomas La FleurBoy Scout
Zvee ScoolerFirst Chessplayer
Tom EverettSecond Chess Player
Mary Kay FagerPolish Woman
Mary McGonicalTattooer
Phyllis VanierBlockawa
Monica MerrimanCanadian Girl
Robert LuceyLadislaus
Lorraine LuceyLadislaus' Mother
Lee Jay NelsonEdek
Robert DannonSS Officer
Peter PhillipsBritish Radio Man
Spencer WaldronSS Sergeant
John GriesemerGerman Trooper
Huggy-Bear FerrisThe Executioner
Al ButlerNazi Officer (uncredited)
Jeffrey MarcusRose's Husband (uncredited)
Rick WashburnPrisoner (uncredited)
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