Playing for Time (1980)
3.8 of 5 from 46 ratings
2h 30min
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- Synopsis:
In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein (Vanessa Redgrave) is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the conductor Alma Rose (Jane Alexander) to invite her friend Marianne (Melanie Mayron), telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their dignity. - 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, Faith Catlin, Clarence Felder
- Genres:
- Drama, Music & Musicals
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Vanessa Redgrave
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