Taking Sides

2001

English

7.0

♡ 2

73%

Drama

Music

War

István Szabó Director

Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz

Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist

Harvey Keitel as Major Steve Arnold

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.