Playing For Time is an Emmy Award Winning 1980 television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon.
Playing For Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) where she and a group of classical musicians were spared from death in return for performing music for thei...
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Playing For Time is an Emmy Award Winning 1980 television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon.
Playing For Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) where she and a group of classical musicians were spared from death in return for performing music for their captors. Playing For Time was also adapted as a play by Arthur Miller.
Fénelon, a Jewish singer-pianist, is sent with other prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in a crowded train during World War II. After having their belongings and clothes taken and their hair callously cut short with scissors, the prisoners are processed and enter the camp. Fénelon is recognized as being a famous musician and she finds that she will be able to avoid hard manual labor and survive longer by becoming a member of the prison's female orchestra.
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