Taking Sides (2002)
Rating: 6.2/10
Duration: 108 min
Director(s): István Szabó,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Harvey Keitel as Steve Arnold
- R. Lee Ermey as General Wallace
- August Zirner as Ed Martin
- Moritz Bleibtreu as David Wills
- Stellan Skarsgård as Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Garrick Hagon as Major Richards
- Armin Rohde as Schlee
- Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Rode
- Robin Renucci as Captain Vernay
- Birgit Minichmayr as Emmi Straube
- Hanns Zischler as Rudolf Werner
- Thomas Thieme as Reichsminister
- Daniel White as Sergeant Adams
- Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz
- Jed Curtis as Colonel Green