Playing for Time
19802h 30mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Music
- History
- TV Movie
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.
Keywords
- world war ii
- concentration camp
- auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
- based on memoir or autobiography
- orchestra
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 30, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Szygzy Productions
- Cast
- Grace Stover,Monica Merriman,Mary Kay Fager,Donna Haley,John Griesemer,Martha Schlamme,Robert Dannon,Anna Thomson,Peter Phillips,Lee Jay Nelsonand 33 more
- Director
- Joseph Sargent,Daniel Mann
- Writer
- Fania Fénelon,Arthur Miller
- Cinematography
- Arthur J. Ornitz
- Music
- Brad Fiedel
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0081344