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

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))