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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301025577 Format: NTSC ISBN: 6301025571 Label: Virgin Video Manufacturer: Virgin Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Virgin Video Release Date: June 22, 1988 Studio: Virgin Video Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1980 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Excellent Movie about Man's Inhumanity to ManI read about this film in Vanessa Redgrave's fascinating biography (which I highly recommend). Her performance in this role is stunning, and as always with truly great art, the script, the directing, and the acting never get sentimental. This is a realistic look at the confusion, disorientation, and tough choices that take place when human beings find themselves in horrific situations outside of their control, yet despite these conditions, the film leaves us a glimmer of hope by showing that even ... Read More Rating: - AGAIN, WHY NO DVD? Why, oh why hasn't this incredible movie been transferred to DVD? I don't want to spend $40 on VHS at a minimum and then it pops up on DVD! One of the most gripping Holocaust Movies ever made! Emotional and powerful from beginning to end. Few movies have the effect this one did on me. Rating: - A Brilliant Film--WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO HAVE IT RELEASED ON DVD?!This is a brilliant, award-winning film that has never been released on DVD and is rarely seen on TV anymore. I think it's a terrible shame that such a powerful work with amazing performances from the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander (and virtually the entire cast) with a script written by the great Arthur Miller, is being allowed to languish in obscurity while lesser works are everywhere you look. Like some of the other reviewers, I too saw this movie when it first aired ... Read More Rating: - Life-changing movieWhen this movie was shown originally on TV, it was also shown in my high school English class. For many students, it was their first significant exposure to the horrors of the Nazi and the realities of a concentration camp. I remember we were all mesmerized and horrified. To this day, that first showing of "Playing for Time" haunts me, and seeing it since a few times, it has not lost any impact. I can still recite some of the lines. It's probably the first great made-for-TV film every made. That this ... Read More Rating: - Still etched in my mind...This is my first review posted to Amazon.... I guess this movie aired on one of the three major networks around 1982 when I watched it. I would have been about 10 years old. Now 36, I hadn't forgotten this movie. I found a "copy/vhs dubbed to DVD" on ebay about two years ago. For the price, I suspected it might not be an original. This movie should be published on DVD. Paragraph 175 is another movie that is on the same subject and is worth while watching. An earlier ... Read More |
