Overview
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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Setting
Set in Poland and Auschwitz
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Music
Music by Brad Fiedel
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Arthur MillerWriter
- Fania FénelonAuthor
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 30, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
Production
Cast
Vanessa RedgraveFania Fenelon
Jane AlexanderAlma Rose
Maud AdamsMala
Christine BaranskiOlga
Robin BartlettEtalina
Marisa BerensonElzvieta
Verna BloomPaulette- Donna HaleyKatrina
Lenore HarrisCharlotte- Mady KaplanVarya
Will LeeShmuel
Anna ThomsonMichou
Viveca LindforsFrau Schmidt
Melanie MayronMarianne- Marcell RosenblattGiselle
Max WrightDr. Josef Mengele
Shirley KnightFrau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Elaine BromkaTchiakowska- Clarence FelderCommandant Kramer
Marta HeflinEsther
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