Playing for Time (1980)

Playing for Time (1980) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
142 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1980 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Daniel Mann
Joseph Sargent

Written By:
Arthur Miller
Fania Fénelon

Actors:
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 Levine ..... Michou
Viveca Lindfors ..... Frau Schmidt
Melanie Mayron ..... Marianne
Marcell Rosenblatt ..... Giselle
Max Wright ..... Dr. Mengele
Shirley Knight ..... Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Elaine Bromka ..... Tchiakowska
Faith Catlin ..... Liesle
Clarence Felder ..... Commandant Kramer
Marta Heflin ..... Esther
Martha Schlamme ..... Woman on train
Andrew J. Arnold ..... Jewish Boy
Robert Dannon ..... SS officer
Tony Devon ..... Boat Captain
Thomas Everett ..... Chessplayer #2
Tom Everett ..... Young Chess Player
Mary Kay Fager ..... Polish woman
Huggy-Bear Ferris ..... The Executioner
John Griesemer ..... German trooper
Richard Dennis Johnson ..... Kapo
Thomas La Fleur ..... Boy Scout
Ron Lamb ..... British Soldier
Lorraine Lucey ..... Ladislaus' mother
Robert Lucey ..... Ladislaus
Jeffrey Marcus ..... Rose's Husband
Mary McGonical ..... Tattooer
Monica Merriman ..... Canadian girl
Lee Jay Nelson ..... Edek
Peter Phillips ..... British radioman
Sidney Sandness ..... Asthmatic man
Zvee Scooler ..... Chessplayer #1
Dennis Michael Sheppard ..... German NCO
Dorothy Sherwood ..... Berta
Eoin Stewart ..... British Radio Operator
Grace Stover ..... Greta
Phyllis Vanier ..... Blockawa
Spencer Waldron ..... SS sergeant
Rick Washburn ..... Prisoner
Al Butler ..... Nazi officer

Synopsis:

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 23 April, 2021.