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30 September 1980 (USA)
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Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors. | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Not just another tv movie...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Fania Fenelon | |
| Jane Alexander | ... | Alma Rose | |
| Maud Adams | ... | Mala | |
| Christine Baranski | ... | Olga | |
| Robin Bartlett | ... | Etalina | |
| Marisa Berenson | ... | Elzvieta | |
| Verna Bloom | ... | Paulette | |
| Donna Haley | ... | Katrina | |
| Lenore Harris | ... | Charlotte | |
| Mady Kaplan | ... | Varya | |
| Will Lee | ... | Shmuel | |
| Anna Levine | ... | Michou | |
| Viveca Lindfors | ... | Frau Schmidt | |
| Melanie Mayron | ... | Marianne | |
| Marcell Rosenblatt | ... | Giselle |
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Barbra Streisand was originally offered the role of Fania Fenelon. Streisand resembles the real Fenelon much more than Vanessa Redgrave, who ultimately took the part.
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Referenced in Paradise Road (1997)
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This made for tv movie should have been made for the big screen.
It was a great 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 tv.