Playing for Time

Status:
Released
Production:
Szygzy Productions
Aired:
1980-09-30
Playing for Time
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.
Drama
Music
History
TV Movie
Characters

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 Thomson
Michou

Viveca Lindfors
Frau Schmidt

Melanie Mayron
Marianne
Marcell Rosenblatt
Giselle

Max Wright
Dr. Josef Mengele

Shirley Knight
Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

Elaine Bromka
Tchiakowska

Clarence Felder
Commandant Kramer

Marta Heflin
Esther
Martha Schlamme
Woman on train
Faith Catlin
Liesle
Dorothy Sherwood
Berta
Grace Stover
Greta
Sidney Sandness
Asthmatic Man
Thomas La Fleur
Boy Scout

Zvee Scooler
First Chessplayer

Tom Everett
Second Chess Player
Mary Kay Fager
Polish Woman
Mary McGonical
Tattooer
Phyllis Vanier
Blockawa
Monica Merriman
Canadian Girl
Robert Lucey
Ladislaus
Lorraine Lucey
Ladislaus' Mother
Lee Jay Nelson
Edek
Robert Dannon
SS Officer
Peter Phillips
British Radio Man
Spencer Waldron
SS Sergeant

John Griesemer
German Trooper
Huggy-Bear Ferris
The Executioner
Al Butler
Nazi Officer (uncredited)

Jeffrey Marcus
Rose's Husband (uncredited)

Rick Washburn
Prisoner (uncredited)