Playing for Time
1980 · 2h 30m · Drama, History, Music, TV Movie · United States of America
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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Arthur Miller6.4Smart score
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auschwitz-birkenau concentration campbased on memoir or autobiographyconcentration camporchestraworld war ii
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