Critics Reviews of Playing for Time Arthur Miller
The best Tv set production ever.
Firstly I have to say that this is not your usual stereotype Jewish holocaust film: It goes much, much across whatsoever ideological rhetoric, to bargain with Human condition.However, y'all accept the Concentration Military camp as a background for one of the best gimmicky playwrights (arguably The best!) to create and develop his masterpiece .It is worthwhile to know that Arthur Miller persisted in his demand to put Venessa Redgrave in the the leading role, in spite of all the threats and protests of JDL.Hither, she presents i of her most magnificent performances every bit an Creative person trapped in the most dehumanizing conditions one could imagine.The dialogue is absolutely superb, and the actings are quite decent.A must see.
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Redgrave is a wonder to behold
12/vii/17. An excellent expect at the Holocaust through the lives and eyes of the Jewish women who were spared considering they were willing to entertain the Nazis with their musical talent as role of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz. From keen pain comes great music, but, oh, under such horrible circumstances! While this picture show was based on a play by Arthur Miller, which based his work on the memoirs of the surviving members of this grouping, the women portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave was not happy with Redgrave's casting (although she went on to win awards for the portrayal) and wanted Liza Minnelli to play her. The acting was superb. Definitely worth watching, peculiarly if you love music.
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One of the all-time movies I've ever seen nearly the struggle for humanity.
This is a wonderful, powerful and very moving picture show. This is one of the best WWII films surrounding the victims of the Holocaust. The dialog and acting throughout is superb! I likewise am aware that the Jewish Defence League didn't want Vanessa Redgrave playing the main grapheme for political reasons. In that location should be NO politics in interim, just the right actors for the right roles. Ms. Redgrave is definately the right person for the role. I don't know all nearly her personal politics and don't intendance when it comes to seeing a movie similar this one. Her commitment to this role is absolutely mesmerizing. I even heard that in add-on to shaving her head for the role, she used a prophylactic pin to injure her lip instead of only letting the makeup people fake something. She bares her soul in a way that few actors can. Jane Alexander is also very worthy as the Director of the orchestra that Fania(Redgrave) is a part of. If you get a chance to run across this on tv, don't miss information technology. I am fortunate to accept taped it when it originally aired. Some video stores may also take a copy. Remembering the past is a mode to make sure it is never repeated- if you see this moving picture, it will be one more bright retentiveness of why we should never forget.
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Perhaps the all-time ever movie that has been unrecognized.
I was more impressed past Vanessa Redgrave's performance than any female performance , in any medium. As a musician prisoner in a Nazi death campsite, she exceeded any of her other brilliant performances. Aside from Vanessa, the movie should non be missed and hopefully released again.
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Shocking... but it happened
I don't know how many Holocaust films I have seen in my life, but I know they are still shocking. Shocking to know it all happened! Shocking to know there are nonetheless so many people who don't take it equally a real fact.
Anyway, focusing on the flick now. "Playing for Time", every bit many others movies, hits us. And not only because of the potent plot, only because of the performance of the cast. And what a bandage! I confess I did not know most of the actors, just their talent is undeniable. But - there'due south no other way to put it - no one works in "Playing for Time" better than Vanessa Redgrave hither. She's great!
When I went to IMDb to find out more about the picture I saw it was fabricated for Television set. I imagine how strong would it exist if Daniel Mann and Joseph Sargent had done this for the movie theatres.
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One of the Most Touching and Realistic Films about Survival and Loss of Dignity in a Concentration Campsite
In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein (Vanessa Redgrave) is sent past the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards accept her clothing and baggage and they cut her hair very short. One twenty-four hours, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the usher Alma Rose (Jane Alexander) to invite her friend Marianne (Melanie Mayron), telling that she would be a talented singer. Forth the years of abusive handling, they survive just losing their dignity.
"Playing for Time" is ane of the nigh touching and realistic films about survival and loss of nobility in a concentration army camp. I accept a great admiration for the awarded Mrs. Vanessa Redgrave and I believe that "Playing for Fourth dimension" is her best role and performance in her admirable career. I had seen this television receiver film many years ago on VHS and yesterday I saw it in a Brazilian DVD that unfortunately does not take an epitome of skillful quality but anyway it is worthwhile watching this to see and never forget how brutal man may be. My vote is ten
Title (Brazil): "Amarga Sinfonia de Auschwitz" ("Biting Symphony of Auschwitz")
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superb performance past Vanessa Redgrave
Playing for Time deserved theatrical release, but as Television set fare, perhaps amidst the finest, ranking up there with The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Beingness a Jew, I received a lot of flak for applauding Vanessa Redgrave's magnificent performance, but i needs to separate the art from the politics. While physically Ms. Redgrave does not at all resemble the real Fanelon, one can't help feeling that she captured the office. My only criticism is the newswreel type footage used to depict the moving trains. Commencement charge per unit movie
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Available on Netflix
The movie is fantastic. Superb interim. Redgrave may non resemble the existent Fania, or sing every bit well every bit some others up for the part- but this function requires the acting chops few possess. Read the other reviews. I am posting this because the movie is finally bachelor to see on Netflix.
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The best Television receiver Movie I've e'er seen!
This motion picture is very very upper than I expected. Extraordinary realistic interim performances and wonderful scenes brand the movie identify amidst the all-time auswitsch movies.
It is too unfortunate that I was unaware about this picture since, I retrieve, it was shot as a Idiot box movie and didn't released in my state, earlier.
Obligation of prisoned women to perform music in SS camps (for killers) provides what a convenient tension for the cinema and it'southward how sorrowful to know that all pictured scenes are really happened events.
I can surely express that this movie's magnificence underlies in not only its touching to true happenings of real victims but as well its cinematographic power on narration.
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An astonishing masterpiece
It is astonishing to me that this picture show is pretty much unavailable in any format.
What a cast. Vanessa Redgrave. Jane Alexander. Marisa Berenson. Verna Bloom. Melanie Mayron. And a subtle and evocative script by none other than Arthur Miller.
A summary of it sounds unpleasant and harrowing and to a certain extent information technology is. But there is extraordinary beauty in this daring and unusual movie. A group of women, all musicians, are immune by the Nazis to remain alive on the condition that they amuse their captors with music.
It only must exist seen, and volition never be forgotten. Run across this picture any way you tin can. I am sure that in time it volition be rediscovered and seen for the sublime utterance that it is.
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Hard to consume but amazing to watch
The movie is deep and haunting. It gives me the creeps. I tin can't feel confident saying it's an amazing movie because of the discipline matter but, I actually enjoyed the motion-picture show. Information technology was well directed and beautifully covered the topic at hand. ten/x would spotter again!
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An Excellent Movie
It has been years since I have seen this on TV. Being Jewish and agreement the holocaust, I dear this movie with Vanessa Redgrave. I just wish it came on Television more than. The visuals were excellent, the plot very real, and it was an absolute delight to come across how well information technology was portrayed.
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Non just another tv set movie...
This made for tv set picture should have been fabricated for the big screen.
It was a not bad story and had such moving performances. Linda Yellen should be making feature films. I'll always be looking out to see if it will be rerunning on television receiver.
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very moving human being drama
This moving human Drama is 1 of the most touching movies I take always seen.
Vanessa Redgrave is superb and stiff as Fania Fénelon, a jewish singer from
France catastrophe up in Auschwitz, and makes the office of her life.
I would say it is as important and grand as 'Schindler's List' and 'The Pianist', nigh the horrors of the Holocaust.
So, why is this not available on video? I've been trying for years to go agree of a re-create of this moving drama.. and nobody seems to know who'south property the
copyright... It'southward really a shame that this classic is not bachelor on dvd!!
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What Vanessa told me
This is a great moving-picture show and I've seen information technology on TV. I cannot understand why there is no DVD or video -- except that Vanessa Redgrave once told me that he movie was "banned" in the United states because of her back up of the Palestinians.
I told her I had seen information technology on Television receiver and that her concluding scene at the liberation of Auschwitz was extraordinary.
Another reason I liked the movie was that it was the offset film even to mention my personal heroine, Mala Zimetbaum, about whom I accept written.
My story nearly Mala tin can be found at: http://world wide web.ideajournal.com/manufactures.php?id=xv
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My comments once over again stirred deep emotions for these people
One of the almost haunting,soul-wrenching dramas I take ever seen, fabricated much more so because information technology actually happened! The cruelty & unfeeling actions portrayed by the German officers gave me the feeling that I wanted to scream! Information technology was so gut-wrenching. It is a movie we all should see lest we forget the reign of terror inflicted by the horror'due south of state of war.
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Multiple perspectives
The script pointedly shows many different perspectives of the victims of the High german Nazi's holocaust: Communists, Zionists, homosexuals, artists, Germans, Poles, others - and how they perceive what is happening to them. Likewise the horror for these individuals to survive day after day while others are killed around them. And the struggle to retain a sense of existence human. Wonderfully written. Hard to watch for sure. A must-see.
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Vanessa's Best
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Playing for Time is based on a true story in Auschwitz. Paradoxically we encounter no gas chambers because the key character portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave survives past performing in a army camp orchestra for the benefit of the camp bosses.
Instead nosotros get an in depth portrayal of "life" in the decease camp through the remarkable portrayal of the pb extra. I have never seen a role where Vanessa is non thoroughly disarming in her performance. I must comment on the frequent criticism that in her personal life she holds controversial views. I discover this totally irrelevant. In their professional roles, actors are precisely that and we marvel how they can realistically display unimaginable features. Vanessa is the finest of actors and that alone is what must matter.
I think a holocaust film that focused on naked women beingness herded into a gas bedroom. Ratings determined that many viewers were "turned on" by such a scene. How contemptible! In this film you volition not be "turned on" by annihilation, rather you will feel the horrors of the experience.
One of the creepiest characters is Dr. Mengele. At times about gently polite, nosotros know that he was ane of the nigh evil camp physicians. Equally some bosses were busy partying, information technology was the physicians who selected the victims for immediate death or for merciless medical experimentation. Most doctors escaped penalization after the camp was liberated.
This fantabulous movie gives you a real gustation of the death military camp. Even the train ride to the facility is graphic in detail. A powerful picture, with a powerful actress who will transport you lot there and guard you from personal harm.
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Shirley Knight and Jane Alexander Elevate This to Archetype Condition
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Truly harrowing experience that bankrupt the mold of 'holocaust films'. The train trip in the start in which bored crowded 'passengers expecting to exist resettled' of a sudden start dying, the toilet bucket tips over, the line between civilisation and atrocity is crossed.... unforgettable! The 'tone' of sustained and unrelenting danger is beautifully conveyed throughout the pic. Vanessa Redgrave is truly magnificent with that beautiful face and eyes of hers merely I would have to choice Shirley Knight for her terrifying Mandel as the unforgettable function. She is one of the most fascinating characters ever and from the scene where where she 'adopts' a picayune Polish male child till her concluding plummet she scorched upwards the screen.
Jane Alexander's 'plainness' and stillness are used as a 'screen' on which to annals tiny flickers of emotion, anger, fright - a very controlled and bravura operation that frankly, I don't think Vanessa Redgrave would be capable of - or at least information technology would not arrange her. The catastrophe where her world of stone hard conclusion finally collapses into delusion is heartbreaking.
Information technology is worth remembering that Vanessa Redgrave's support of the 'Palestinians' extended far across the 'peace process' and endorsed terror, violence and absurd anti-Semitic lies in the guise of anti-Zionism. I find her politics offensive but take never 'boycotted' any actress or filmmaker.
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Best film never released
This is probably the all-time picture show of its blazon I have seen, I have watched the film twice and tin non understand why it has not been released on full general release, DVD or video. I understand it was a Tv movie but information technology is a classic film and I would like to buy the film so that others can lookout man with me. I accept spoken to countless people about this film and anybody remembers the moving picture. It is a sad, emotion filled film. The end scene brought tears to the eyes and I am surprised that information technology is not scheduled for viewing more information technology is. I commend this film to all, in the promise that someday it may be released for sale to the general public.
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I saw the moving picture last night and information technology is fantastic
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When I saw this movie in 1980 I thought information technology was good. I recollect the JDL wanting it banned considering it had Vanessa Reedgraves in the title role and she had recently been photographed with the PLO holding up an AK47. However, her function in this movie was flawless. She and several of the supporting actors must have starved themselves to look and so skinny and forlorn. There is one scene that is especially riveting. It occurs at night when ane of the starving prisoners comes to Vanessa to limited her love for another prisoner. To me information technology represented the deportation of impending extermination with a feeling of passion for some other person. This is the same irrational runaway of internal emotions that impels someone to leave his wife and family and run off with another person, male or female. This feeling has been described as uncontrollable, ie. beyond conscious command.
Too, we accept one very beautiful Nazi Guard. She is shown shooting someone in cold blood, but she besides expresses deep human business concern for the members of the orchestra and for children.
Joseph Mengaler is also portrayed in this motion-picture show. He is responsible for keeping the prisoners alive although nosotros know from history that he was brutal in his experimentation on prisoners. The part is played by the actor who was the male parent in the TV series Alf. Toward the end 1 of the guards tells the fleeing prisoners that if they go left they will fall into British hands but if they become correct they will fall into Russian Hands. Likewise, we are shown the guards existence rounded up and taken out in trucks. If the Russians had taken over the camp this would not have happened as the Russians shot all the guards and made prisoners watch. This was particularly difficult on prisoners who had been befriended past guards.
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Arthur Miller
I was in this movie (I was Marisa Berenson'south stand up-in) and Arthur Miller was on the set virtually every day. As was his wife - taking pictures. Talk well-nigh a living fable. I regret, to this twenty-four hour period, that I did not get his autograph (although I did go Vanessa Redgrave's and a few other's). Just being in the presence of this human being was an incredible experience. What a privilege information technology was for a "pocket-sized town girl" to experience this. It lives through me to this solar day - my daughter (born long afterwards my experience on this film) is very interested in the Holocaust because of my experience on this motion picture. My best wishes go out to his family. I don't think - in our lifetime - we volition Always experience a talent such as his. He will be missed!
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I'm Sending Tears to the Angels in Heaven
Every bit a 26 year Music Manufacture Exec, and OBVIOUSLY a former school and higher pupil, I was familiar with Auschwitz. nonetheless, in HS, I became VERY close with a teacher who lost her family and fiance, and it was hard for her to open upwardly. I later, after breaking through her icy tough outside, institute out she was Jewish, and a child of the concentration camps. By and so, I'd already fallen under her spell, she was similar the Aunt I WISH mine were, and we were bonding, then I wanted to understand what made her WHO she was, then I began a half dozen year deep dive research into the WWII Jewish Feel. I could probably tell you more about what happened at that place than many historians and museum guides! There'due south probably few books I DIDN'T read! In fact, information technology got in the way of my higher work at one indicate LOL! If there was money in History, I might have fabricated information technology 1 of my majors! But I digress, what I'm getting to is THIS is the Kickoff time I remember reading, hearing, or seeing annihilation beyond a paragraph or footnote about the women'south orchestra at Auschwitz!
I retrieve EVERY musician, student, Jew, Genteel, should lookout this movie! This is such a LONG movie, only I was RIVETED to my seat! THAT is a MIRACLE LOL! There'southward SO MUCH history hither, and it's told with SO MUCH depth of humanity, that quite a few times, I was actually FLOORED thinking... WOW! I wouldn't think someone would feel that way in that state of affairs!!! That takes a large person! Or WOW! I can't believe someone would be dumb enough to pull a stunt like that, but I guess it takes all kinds! You can even find yourself felling sorry for some members of the German language Regular army, especially a particular adult female who tries to accept skilful intendance of the women in the orchestra! So, you meet this shows the Existent human condition!!! I think this message is INVALUABLE!!! DON'T Pass THIS Picture show By!!!!
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A survivor's Story
Very moving retelling of an autobiography. The endless horror of The Holocaust has necessitated the most harrowing films. This one documents the lives of the orchestra ushering new arrivals into their concluding destination.
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Unforgettable Goggle box movie
Never will I forget this made-for-TV movie. Information technology should be professionally transferred to DVD medium! With sub-titles in diverse languages so that more than people worldwide tin bask it.
The acting was fantastic. The impact of the script was unusual for whatsoever picture show, most of all for a fabricated-for-TV one. I accept never forgotten any of the scenes or the characters --- and I am NOT a motion-picture show fan! Nor am I Jewish, and I am too young to relate to WWII events. After reading that Redgrave was anti-semitic, I am even more impressed with her interim. It was flawless, as was the acting of every supporting graphic symbol, including those playing the Germans.
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