Playing for Time (1980)

Drama
Music
History
TV Movie

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

Fania Fenelon
Vanessa Redgrave
Alma Rose
Jane Alexander
Shmuel
Will Lee
Michou
Anna Thomson
Frau Schmidt
Viveca Lindfors
Marianne
Melanie Mayron
Giselle
M Marcell Rosenblatt
Dr. Josef Mengele
Max Wright
Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Shirley Knight
Tchiakowska
Elaine Bromka
Commandant Kramer
Clarence Felder
Esther
Marta Heflin
Mala
Maud Adams
Woman on train
M Martha Schlamme
Liesle
F Faith Catlin
Berta
D Dorothy Sherwood
Greta
G Grace Stover
Asthmatic Man
S Sidney Sandness
Boy Scout
T Thomas La Fleur
First Chessplayer
Zvee Scooler
Second Chess Player
Tom Everett
Polish Woman
M Mary Kay Fager
Tattooer
M Mary McGonical
Olga
Christine Baranski
Blockawa
P Phyllis Vanier
Canadian Girl
M Monica Merriman
Ladislaus
R Robert Lucey
Ladislaus' Mother
L Lorraine Lucey
Edek
L Lee Jay Nelson
SS Officer
R Robert Dannon
British Radio Man
P Peter Phillips
SS Sergeant
S Spencer Waldron
German Trooper
J John Griesemer
The Executioner
H Huggy-Bear Ferris
Etalina
Robin Bartlett
Nazi Officer (uncredited)
A Al Butler
Rose's Husband (uncredited)
Jeffrey Marcus
Prisoner (uncredited)
Rick Washburn
Elzvieta
Marisa Berenson
Paulette
Verna Bloom
Katrina
D Donna Haley
Charlotte
Lenore Harris
Varya
M Mady Kaplan

Crew

Director
D Daniel Mann
Director
Joseph Sargent
Writer
Arthur Miller
Author
F Fania Fénelon
Producer
J John E. Quill
Associate Producer
L Louise Ramsay
Producer
B Bernard Sofronski
Producer
Linda Yellen
Original Music Composer
Brad Fiedel
Director of Photography
A Arthur J. Ornitz
Editor
J Jay Freund
Casting
L Lynn Kressel
Art Direction
R Robert Gundlach
Set Decoration
G Gary Jones
Costume Design
R Ruth Morley