Playing for Time

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Playing for Time

television film by Mann [1980]

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Daniel Mann
…followed for the TV movie Playing for Time (1980; codirected with Joseph Sargent), a drama based on the life of Fania Fénelon, a musician at Auschwitz who survived the horrors of the camp by performing in a female orchestra. Vanessa Redgrave won an Emmy Award for her nuanced performance as…
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…followed for the TV movie Playing for Time (1980; codirected with Joseph Sargent), a drama based on the life of Fania Fénelon, a musician at Auschwitz who survived the horrors of the camp by performing in a female orchestra. Vanessa Redgrave won an Emmy Award for her nuanced performance as…
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Vanessa Redgrave
Movies of the 1980s and ’90s
…television adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Playing for Time (1980) won her an Emmy Award, though, as a longtime supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, she was widely criticized for accepting the role. She received her fifth Oscar nomination for her role in the film adaptation of Henry James’s The Bostonians…
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…television adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Playing for Time (1980) won her an Emmy Award, though, as a longtime supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, she was widely criticized for accepting the role. She received her fifth Oscar nomination for her role in the film adaptation of Henry James’s The Bostonians…
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