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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.

Date: 09/30/1980

Rating: 6.9

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski, Robin Bartlett, Marisa Berenson, Verna Bloom, Donna Haley, Lenore Harris, Mady Kaplan, Will Lee, Anna Thomson, Viveca Lindfors, Melanie Mayron, Marcell Rosenblatt, Max Wright, Shirley Knight, Elaine Bromka, Clarence Felder, Marta Heflin, Martha Schlamme, Faith Catlin, Dorothy Sherwood, Grace Stover, Sidney Sandness, Thomas La Fleur, Zvee Scooler, Tom Everett, Mary Kay Fager, Mary McGonical, Phyllis Vanier, Monica Merriman, Robert Lucey, Lorraine Lucey, Lee Jay Nelson, Robert Dannon, Peter Phillips, Spencer Waldron, John Griesemer, Huggy-Bear Ferris, Al Butler, Jeffrey Marcus, Rick Washburn

Vanessa Redgrave