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Taking Sides is a British film of genre Drama directed by István Szabó released in USA on 1 january 2001 with Harvey Keitel

Taking Sides (2002)

Taking sides

Taking Sides
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Released in USA 1 january 2001
Length 1h48
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Musical
Rating70% 3.544483.544483.544483.544483.54448

Taking Sides (German title Taking Sides - Der Fall Furtwängler) is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British co-production directed by István Szabó and starring Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård. The story is set during the period of denazification investigations conducted in post-war Germany after the Second World War, and it is based on the real interrogations that took place between a U.S. Army investigator and the musical conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had been charged with serving the Nazi regime. It is based on the 1995 play of the same title by Ronald Harwood.

The film was shot on location in Germany with the dialogue in German and English, although in the version released in the US and the UK the dialogue is only in English.

Synopsis

In Berlin at the end of World War II, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård) is conducting Beethoven's 5th Symphony when yet another Allied bomb raid stops the performance. A minister in Hitler's government comes to Furtwängler's dressing room to advise him that he should go abroad, and escape the war. The film then jumps to some time after the Allied victory, and we see U.S. Army General Wallace (R. Lee Ermey) task Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) with "getting" Furtwängler at his denazification hearing: "Find Wilhelm Furtwängler guilty. He represents everything that was rotten in Germany".

Actors

Harvey Keitel

(Steve Arnold)Stellan Skarsgård

(Wilhelm Furtwängler)Moritz Bleibtreu

(David Wills)Birgit Minichmayr

(Emmi Straube)Ulrich Tukur

(Helmut Rode)
And :
Oleg Tabakov
R. Lee Ermey
Hanns Zischler
Armin Rohde
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