Film of the Day: Twisted Pair

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1980

150 minutes (2 hrs 30 mins)

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Directed by

Daniel Mann · Joseph Sargent

Starring

Vanessa Redgrave · Jane Alexander · Maud Adams · Christine Baranski · Robin Bartlett · Marisa Berenson

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 30th September 1980

Sweden release: 19th April 1981

Spain release: 2nd November 1981

Certificates

13+

Total grosses

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Director

Role

Daniel Mann

Directed By

Joseph Sargent

Directed By

Actor

Character

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 Thomson

Michou

Viveca Lindfors

Frau Schmidt

Melanie Mayron

Marianne

Marcell Rosenblatt

Giselle

Max Wright

Dr. Mengele

Shirley Knight

Lagerfuhrerin Maria Mandel

Elaine Bromka

Tchiakowska

Faith Catlin

Liesle

Clarence Felder

Commandant Kramer

Martha Schlamme

Woman on train

Marta Heflin

Esther

Dorothy Sherwood

Berta

Grace Stover

Greta

Sidney Sandness

Asthmatic Man

Thomas La Fleur

Boy Scout

Zvee Scooler

First Chessplayer

Thomas Everett

Second Chessplayer

Mary Kay Fager

Polish Woman

Mary McGonical

Tattooer

Phyllis Vanier

Blockawa

Monica Merriman

Canadian Girl

Robert Lucey

Ladislaus

Lorraine Lucey

Ladislaus' Mother

Lee Jay Nelson

Edek

Robert Dannon

SS Officer

Peter Phillips

British Radio Man

Spencer Waldron

SS Sergeant

John Griesemer

German Trooper

Huggy-Bear Ferris

The Executioner

Andrew J. Arnold

Jewish Boy

Al Butler

Nazi officer

Tom Everett

Young Chess Player

Richard Dennis Johnson

Kapo

Ron Lamb

British Soldier

Jeffrey Marcus

Rose's Husband

Dennis Michael Sheppard

German NCO

Eoin Stewart

British Radio Operator

Rick Washburn

Prisoner