Playing for Time
30/09/1980
3h
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 Redgrave
Fania Fenelon
Jane Alexander
Alma Rose
Maud Adams
Mala
Christine Baranski
Olga
Robin Bartlett
Etalina
Marisa Berenson
Elzvieta
Verna Bloom
Paulette
Donna Haley
Katrina
Lenore Harris
Charlotte
Mady Kaplan
Varya
Will Lee
Shmuel
Anna Thomson
Michou
Viveca Lindfors
Frau Schmidt
Melanie Mayron
Marianne
Marcell Rosenblatt
Giselle
Max Wright
Dr. Josef Mengele
Shirley Knight
Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Elaine Bromka
Tchiakowska
Clarence Felder
Commandant Kramer
Marta Heflin
Esther
Martha Schlamme
Woman on train
Faith Catlin
Liesle
Dorothy Sherwood
Berta
Grace Stover
Greta
Sidney Sandness
Asthmatic Man
Thomas La Fleur
Boy Scout
Zvee Scooler
First Chessplayer
Tom Everett
Second Chess Player
Mary Kay Fager
Polish Woman
Mary McGonical
Tattooer
Phyllis Vanier
Blockawa
Monica Merriman
Canadian Girl
Robert Lucey
Ladislaus
Lorraine Lucey
Ladislaus' Mother
Lee Jay Nelson
Edek
Robert Dannon
SS Officer
Peter Phillips
British Radio Man
Spencer Waldron
SS Sergeant
John Griesemer
German Trooper
Huggy-Bear Ferris
The Executioner
Al Butler
Nazi Officer (uncredited)
Jeffrey Marcus
Rose's Husband (uncredited)
Rick Washburn
Prisoner (uncredited)
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