Playing for Time

Year: 1980

Runtime: 150 mins

Language: English

Directors: Joseph Sargent, Daniel Mann

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A Jewish singer is abruptly taken from her concert hall and deported to Auschwitz, where she and a group of fellow musicians are forced to perform for the camp’s inmates. Their harrowing duty is to use music to calm prisoners destined for the gas chambers, offering fleeting moments of humanity amid unimaginable horror.

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