Year: 1980
Duration: 02:28:42
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski, Robin Bartlett
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Sursis pour l’orchestre, Música para sobrevivir, Amarga Sinfonia de Auschwitz, Ballata per un condannato, Playing for Time 1980
Description: Semi jew Fania Fenelon-Goldstein (Vanessa Redgrave – Whistleblower), received her musical education in France, was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There she goes to the women’s selection camp orchestra, a unique musical group in the system of concentration camps of death. Led them to a great violinist, renowned conductor Alma Rose, who managed to create anything from a highly professional team. Fanny was transferred to a separate hut, where they lived all orkestrantki. They eat better, they did not drive on the heavy work. Instead, they are daily 8-hour rehearsals, playing prisoners, going to work and coming back, gave concerts for the protection of the camp. Alma Rosa constantly work to increase the artistic level of performance, as he knew that orkestrantok life hanging in the balance, and if ringleaders of the camp administration did not like the performance, all the women sent to their deaths. The other prisoners mistreated musician, envied their benefits, their attendants believed the Nazis’ SS dogs. “But happiness “chosen” for long.
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