Playing for Time - (1980) - Netflix

2h28m - Dramas

Captured by Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, a Jewish musician is assigned to soothe other prisoners marching to their deaths in the gas chambers.

Director: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
Cast: Robin Bartlett, Will Lee, Jane Alexander, Verna Bloom, Christine Baranski, Marisa Berenson, Lenore Harris, Donna Haley, Vanessa Redgrave, Maud Adams
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 0/100
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Available Since: 2017-12-01
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Synopsis In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the conductor Alma Rose to invite her friend Marianne, telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their dignity.

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