Movie · 1980
Playing for Time
Released 30 September 1980 150 min Drama / Music / History / TV Movie More from 1980 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Will Lee
as Shmuel
Viveca Lindfors
as Frau Schmidt
Shirley Knight
as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Vanessa Redgrave
as Fania Fenelon
Verna Bloom
as Paulette
Clarence Felder
as Commandant Kramer
Jane Alexander
as Alma Rose
Maud Adams
as Mala
Marisa Berenson
as Elzvieta
Elaine Bromka
as Tchiakowska
Robin Bartlett
as Etalina
Christine Baranski
as Olga
Anna Thomson
as Michou
Melanie Mayron
as Marianne
Mady Kaplan
as Varya
Donna Haley
as Katrina
Lenore Harris
as Charlotte
Marcell Rosenblatt
as Giselle
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The numbers
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
72Will Lee — oldest on the call sheet
24Mady Kaplan — youngest billed
38average age of the credited cast