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Playing for Time (1980)

Drama | 150 minutes
3,06 61 votes

Genre: Drama / Music

Duration: 150 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Daniel Mann

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander and Maud Adams

IMDb score: 7,3 (2.941)

Releasedate: 30 September 1980

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Playing for Time plot

Fania Fenelon is transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Here she becomes part of a group of female musicians who are prisoners in the concentration camp, but are not killed in exchange for playing music for the Nazis. These expect them to play like virtuosos every day, despite their hunger and misery.

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stinissen (crew films & series)

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Nice war drama with a lot of authentic images of concentration camps but the film didn't have the impact I expected after seeing the rating on IMDB in my opinion a bit too much music. The characters, no matter how bad it was, could only touch me moderately.

Schindler's List was much better.

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mrklm

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The account of a number of Jewish and half-Jewish women in Auschwitz who manage to avoid the gas chamber by joining an orchestra that has to uphold the morale of the officers (including Joseph Mengele [Max Wright]). As thousands of prisoners are gassed, the women try to keep each other physically and mentally afloat, knowing that one bad act could lead to their own deaths. But how do you maintain your dignity and your humanity in a camp where inhumanity is the order of the day?

Based on the autobiography of Holocaust survivor Fania Feleon [Vanessa Redgrave], this film provides a poignant picture of life in Auschwitz. Director Daniel Mann makes effective use of archive footage, allowing him to focus on the fragile relationship between the women, each trying to survive in their own way and regularly fighting about it. Shirley Knight has a beautiful key role as Lagerführerin Maria Mandel, who presents herself as the patroness of the orchestra and thus personifies one of the most important central themes. But the play is excellent across the board, with Vanessa Redgrave (who was an extremely controversial choice to star because of her pro-Palestinian sympathies) a rock in a film that asks pertinent questions about the boundary between man and monster, but is also a hymn to the power of music.

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clubsport

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The beginning is quite well done and the imitation of a grim atmosphere was also good, but somehow the film loses credibility after that.

The barracks also look remarkably clean in some scenes, we also never see trains arriving at the camp and the scenes of the prisoners being sorted out afterwards, but only trucks, we also see absolutely nothing of leading the victims to the gas chambers.

The film mainly focuses on the struggles in the orchestra and that is reasonably done , otherwise this film does not feel as if the makers wanted to paint as authentic a picture as possible of the conditions in the camp .

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Лучший частный хостинг