Playing for Time (film)

Playing for Time
Genre	Drama Music
Written by	Arthur Miller based on Fania Fénelon (autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz)
Directed by	Daniel Mann Joseph Sargent (uncredited)
Starring	Vanessa Redgrave Jane Alexander
Music by	Brad Fiedel
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Linda Yellen
Production locations	Fort Indiantown Gap, Annville, Pennsylvania
Cinematography	Arthur J. Ornitz
Editor	Jay Freund
Running time	150 minutes
Production company	Szygzy Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 30, 1980 (1980-09-30)
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Playing for Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon's autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon.

Playing for Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of classical musicians were spared in return for performing music for their captors. The film was later adapted as a play by Miller.

This was the last film of director Daniel Mann. Parts of the film were directed by Joseph Sargent, but only Mann was credited as director.