Film

Playing for Time

Name: Playing for Time
Director: Joseph Sargent
Released: 1980
Rating: 7
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski, Robin Bartlett

1980 · 150 min · ★ 7 · Dir. Joseph Sargent

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.