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Playing for Time

Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

Director

Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent

Year

Genre

Box Office

N/A

Production

Szygzy Productions

Awards

Won 4 Primetime Emmys. 5 wins & 4 nominations total

Fania Fenelon

Vanessa Redgrave

Alma Rose

Mala

Olga

Christine Baranski

Etalina

Elzvieta

Marisa Berenson

Paulette

Katrina

Charlotte

Varya

Shmuel

Michou

Frau Schmidt

Viveca Lindfors

Marianne

Giselle

Marcell Rosenblatt

Dr. Mengele

Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

Tchiakowska

Liesle

Commandant Kramer

Clarence Felder

Woman on train

Martha Schlamme

Esther

Berta

Dorothy Sherwood

Greta

Asthmatic Man

Sidney Sandness

Boy Scout

Thomas La Fleur

First Chessplayer

Second Chessplayer

Polish Woman

Tattooer

Blockawa

Canadian Girl

Monica Merriman

Ladislaus

Ladislaus' Mother

Edek

SS Officer

British Radio Man

SS Sergeant

Spencer Waldron

German Trooper

The Executioner

Huggy-Bear Ferris

Jewish Boy

Andrew J. Arnold

Nazi officer

Young Chess Player

Kapo

Richard Dennis Johnson

British Soldier

Rose's Husband

German NCO

Dennis Michael Sheppard

British Radio Operator

Prisoner

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A special welcome to
you all tonight. - Playing for Time

A special welcome to you all tonight.

Somebody said it's because we're
Jewish that they picked us up. - Playing for Time

Somebody said it's because we're Jewish that they ...

You really shouldn't eat so much. - Playing for Time

You really shouldn't eat so much.

I'm not sure I could do farm work,
could you? - Playing for Time

I'm not sure I could do farm work, could you?

Hold the match sir. - Playing for Time

Hold the match sir.

How old are you? - Playing for Time

How old are you?

I have to get to the pail. - Playing for Time

I have to get to the pail.

It's okay. - Playing for Time

It stinks in here. - Playing for Time

It stinks in here.

Open the door! - Playing for Time

What did you say? - Playing for Time

What did you say?

You can take your clothes off. - Playing for Time

You can take your clothes off.

She keeps her hair? - Playing for Time

She keeps her hair?

Where are the people
we came with? - Playing for Time

Where are the people we came with?

Marianne, listen to me. - Playing for Time

Marianne, listen to me.

What a stupid thing. - Playing for Time

What a stupid thing.

Is that why you didn't? - Playing for Time

Is that why you didn't?

Does anyone know how to
sing Madame Butterfly? - Playing for Time

Does anyone know how to sing Madame Butterfly?

She... she can. - Playing for Time

She... she can.

You are Mademoiselle Fenelon? - Playing for Time

You are Mademoiselle Fenelon?

Crying? But why? - Playing for Time

Crying? But why?

You will take her? - Playing for Time

You will take her?

Do you know any German music? - Playing for Time

Do you know any German music?

See that they get clean, and
send them to me at the depot. - Playing for Time

See that they get clean, and send them to me at the depot.

What size? - Playing for Time

Continue. - Playing for Time

Yes. - Playing for Time

And now, Meine Damen und Herren, - Playing for Time

And now, Meine Damen und Herren,

Don't know why there's no sun up
in the sky. Stormy weather. - Playing for Time

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky. Storm...

Fania. - Playing for Time

I'm so hungry Fania. - Playing for Time

I'm so hungry Fania.

Is that all you've got done? - Playing for Time

Is that all you've got done?

Take it. - Playing for Time

You won't take it? - Playing for Time

You won't take it?

Don't do that. - Playing for Time

May I? - Playing for Time

Did you ever hear anything
more touching, Herr Commandant? - Playing for Time

Did you ever hear anything more touching, Herr Commandant?

I've rarely felt so totally... moved. - Playing for Time

I've rarely felt so totally... moved.

Thank you Herr doctor. - Playing for Time

Thank you Herr doctor.

Excuse me, I didn't mean to
interrupt, Herr Commandant. - Playing for Time

Excuse me, I didn't mean to interrupt, Herr Commandant.

Well... - Playing for Time

Ah, that's just off the last transport. - Playing for Time

Ah, that's just off the last transport.

Maria - Playing for Time

That's much better. - Playing for Time

That's much better.

Are you trying to destroy us? - Playing for Time

Are you trying to destroy us?

I want my Mama! - Playing for Time

I want my Mama!

I see they look to you. - Playing for Time

I see they look to you.

We must constantly raise the level of our playing - Playing for Time

We must constantly raise the level of our playing

Jews to the left. - Playing for Time

Jews to the left.

Get ready for delousing. - Playing for Time

Get ready for delousing.

In this case you are allowed to
cut off the upper half of the star. - Playing for Time

In this case you are allowed to cut off the upper half of th...

What are you doing that for? - Playing for Time

What are you doing that for?

Two more cigarettes, - Playing for Time

Two more cigarettes,

At least share some of what
you get with the others. - Playing for Time

At least share some of what you get with the others.

All accounted for, Herr Captain. - Playing for Time

All accounted for, Herr Captain.

She's had no contact at all
with your players? - Playing for Time

She's had no contact at all with your players?

"ALLIES LAND FRANCE" - Playing for Time

"ALLIES LAND FRANCE"

Etalina? - Playing for Time

Hoppa, hoppa, Ladislaus,
softly as a little mouse... - Playing for Time

Hoppa, hoppa, Ladislaus, softly as a little mouse...

So she's a human
being, after all? - Playing for Time

So she's a human being, after all?

And how are you these days? - Playing for Time

And how are you these days?

He's here. - Playing for Time

Paulette! Paulette! - Playing for Time

Paulette! Paulette!

Let us begin. - Playing for Time

Now you do her laundry... - Playing for Time

Now you do her laundry...

Too late for you, anyhow. - Playing for Time

Too late for you, anyhow.

Everyone tries to tell you
their troubles, don't they? - Playing for Time

Everyone tries to tell you their troubles, don't they?

I almost feel pity for a person
like you more than us. - Playing for Time

I almost feel pity for a person like you more than us.

My memory is falling apart
- Did we... - Playing for Time

My memory is falling apart - Did we...

You throw away milk, Tchaikowska? - Playing for Time

You throw away milk, Tchaikowska?

Never mind. - Playing for Time

You are totally wrong
about practically everything. - Playing for Time

You are totally wrong about practically everything.

What happened? - Playing for Time

Would the Herr Doctor like to
hear some particular music? - Playing for Time

Would the Herr Doctor like to hear some particular music?

Doctor. - Playing for Time

The thing to do is rehearse
and rehearse and rehearse! - Playing for Time

The thing to do is rehearse and rehearse and rehearse!

The duet from Madame Butterfly. - Playing for Time

The duet from Madame Butterfly.

We are ready to begin,
Frau Lagerfuhrerin. - Playing for Time

We are ready to begin, Frau Lagerfuhrerin.

It has always been the same...
The greatness of a people - Playing for Time

It has always been the same... The greatness of a people

Come now. - Playing for Time

One and two and... - Playing for Time

One and two and...

Poor Madame Butterfly... - Playing for Time

Poor Madame Butterfly...

I seem... - Playing for Time

I want you to take this. - Playing for Time

I want you to take this.

Where are we going? - Playing for Time

Where are we going?

Slow down! - Playing for Time

I'm making you Kapo.
Form them up and march - Playing for Time

I'm making you Kapo. Form them up and march

... Fania - Playing for Time

Would it be at all possible for you
to say something for the press? - Playing for Time

Would it be at all possible for you to say something for the...

Our day of glory has arrived. - Playing for Time

Our day of glory has arrived.

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Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

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Director: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent

Writer: Arthur Miller, Fania Fénelon

Production: Szygzy Productions

Genre: drama, music

Year: 1980

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 7.3

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 30 Sep 1980

Awards: Won 4 Primetime Emmys. 5 wins & 4 nominations total

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