Playing for Time

Playing for Time 1980

7.6/10

IMDB Rating : 7.6

FD Smart Rating : 7.6

Synopsis : Captured by Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, a Jewish musician is assigned to soothe other prisoners marching to their deaths in the gas chambers.

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Argentina , Australia , Brazil , Canada , Czech Republic , France , Germany , Hong Kong , Hungary , India , Israel , Italy , Japan , Lithuania , Netherlands , Poland , Russia , Singapore , Slovakia , Spain , Sweden , Thailand , United Kingdom , United States , Belgium , Greece , Mexico , Portugal , Romania , South Africa , South Korea , Switzerland , Iceland

Directors:

Joseph Sargent , Daniel Mann

Actors:

Robin Bartlett , Will Lee , Jane Alexander , Verna Bloom , Christine Baranski , Marisa Berenson , Lenore Harris , Donna Haley , Vanessa Redgrave , Maud Adams

Creators:

Arthur Miller , Fania Fenelon

Languages:

English [Original]

Subtitles:

Spanish , English , Italian , Arabic , German , Simplified Chinese , Traditional Chinese , Greek , French , Brazilian Portuguese , Polish , European Spanish , Dutch , Turkish , Romanian , Hebrew , Japanese , Portuguese , Korean , Norwegian , Finnish , Swedish , Thai , Danish

Genres:

Drama, Music

Release Date:

1980

Run Time:

2h28m

Maturity Rating:

In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein 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 to invite her friend Marianne, telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their dignity.

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