Movie
Taking Sides
Overview
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Details
- Release date
- 2002-03-07
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Drama, War, Music
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paladin Production S.A., Maecenas Film- und Fernseh GmbH, Studio Babelsberg, Little Big Bear Filmproduktion GmbH, MBP, Satel Film, Spice Factory
- Country
- Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Harvey Keitel as Steve Arnold
- Stellan Skarsgård as Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Moritz Bleibtreu as David Wills
- R. Lee Ermey as General Wallace
- Birgit Minichmayr as Emmi Straube
- Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Rode
- Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz
- Hanns Zischler as Rudolf Werner
- Armin Rohde as Schlee
- Daniel White as Sergeant Adams
- August Zirner as Ed Martin
- Thomas Thieme as Reichsminister
Crew
- István Szabó - Director
- Ronald Harwood - Screenplay
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