Playing for Time
Fania Fenelon, a Jewish French singer and musician who was also a cabaret performer, is captured by Nazis in World War II. She is taken from Paris to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Her clothes and baggage are taken by the guards, and her hair is cut very short. When she’s very weak one day, someone asks her if any prisoners could perform Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. She joins the band of musicians who were spared the gas chambers and plays music for the Nazis. Alma Rose invites Marianne to the concert, and she tells him that Marianne is a skilled singer. They survive, but their dignity is eroded over the many years of abuse. –Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genre: Drama, History, Music, TV Movie
Director: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
Actors: Anna Levine, Christine Baranski, Jane Alexander, Marisa Berenson, Maud Adams, Robin Bartlett, Vanessa Redgrave
Country: USA
