István SzabóDirector
Harvey KeitelSteve Arnold
Stellan SkarsgårdWilhelm Furtwängler
Moritz BleibtreuDavid Wills
R. Lee ErmeyGeneral Wallace
Birgit MinichmayrEmmi Straube
Ulrich TukurHelmut Rode
Oleg TabakovColonel Dymshitz
Hanns ZischlerRudolf Werner
Armin RohdeSchlee
Daniel WhiteSergeant Adams
August ZirnerEd Martin
Thomas ThiemeReichsminister
Taking Sides
- drama
- war
- music
07 Mar 2002
6.3
2
1h 48min
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.
