Playing for Time
150 mins
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.
Donna Haley
Katrina
Mady Kaplan
Varya
Marcell Rosenblatt
Giselle
Martha Schlamme
Woman on train
Faith Catlin
Liesle
Dorothy Sherwood
Berta
Grace Stover
Greta
Sidney Sandness
Asthmatic Man
Thomas La Fleur
Boy Scout
Mary Kay Fager
Polish Woman
Mary McGonical
Tattooer
Phyllis Vanier
Blockawa
Monica Merriman
Canadian Girl
Robert Lucey
Ladislaus
Lorraine Lucey
Ladislaus' Mother
Lee Jay Nelson
Edek
Robert Dannon
SS Officer
Peter Phillips
British Radio Man
Spencer Waldron
SS Sergeant
Huggy-Bear Ferris
The Executioner
Al Butler
Nazi Officer (uncredited)
Fania Fénelon
Author
John E. Quill
Producer
Louise Ramsay
Associate Producer
Bernard Sofronski
Producer
Arthur J. Ornitz
Director of Photography
Jay Freund
Editor
Robert Gundlach
Art Direction
Gary Jones
Set Decoration
Ruth Morley
Costume Design