Playing for Time (1980) (CBS Television [USA]) Directed by Daniel Mann & Joseph Sargent (uncredited) Writing credits by Fania Fénelon (autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz) &Arthur Miller Produced by John E. Quill (co-producer) & Linda Yellen (executive producer) Production Companies Szygzy Productions Runtime: 150 min Language: English, USA Original Music by : Brad Fiedel Cinematography by : Arthur J. Ornitz Film Editing by : Jay Freund Art Direction by : Robert Gundlach Set Decoration by : Gary Jones Costume Design by : Ruth Morley Joseph Di Pasquale First assistant camera Arnold Skyrock Title designer

Genre: Drama Plot Outline: Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Cast (in credits order)
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 Levine	....	Michou
Viveca Lindfors	....	Frau Schmidt
Melanie Mayron	....	Marianne
Marcell Rosenblatt	....	Giselle
Max Wright	....	Dr. Mengele
Shirley Knight	....	Frau Lagerfuhrerin Maria Mandel
Elaine Bromka	....	Tchiakowska
Faith Catlin	....	Liesle
Clarence Felder	....	Commandant Kramer
Marta Heflin	....	Esther
Martha Schlamme	....	Woman on train
Rest of cast listed alphabetically
Robert Dannon	....	SS officer
Thomas Everett	....	Chessplayer #2
Mary Kay Fager	....	Polish woman
Huggy-Bear Ferris	....	The Executioner
John Griesemer	....	German trooper
Thomas La Fleur	....	Boy Scout
Lorraine Lucey	....	Ladislaus' mother
Robert Lucey	....	Ladislaus
Mary McGonical	....	Tattooer
Monica Merriman	....	Canadian girl
Lee Jay Nelson	....	Edek
Peter Phillips	....	British radioman
Sidney Sandness	....	Asthmatic man
Zvee Scooler	....	Chessplayer #1
Dorothy Sherwood	....	Berta
Grace Stover	....	Greta
Phyllis Vanier	....	Blockawa
Spencer Waldron	....	SS sergeant
Rick Washburn	....	Prisoner
Al Butler	....	Nazi officer (uncredited)