| Playing for Time | |
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| 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 |
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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.