Playing for Time (1980)
Directed by Daniel Mann
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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What critics compared Playing for Time to
As a parable of art-triumphing-over-Nazism, it's not as strong as the Arthur Miller-scripted 1980 TV movie "Playing for Time," and as a Warsaw ghetto survival story, it can't touch the 1997 Danish drama, "The Island on Bird Street."