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Taking Sides(Movie, 2001)

1h 48min | Genres: Drama, War, Music
Taking SidesRating: 3.1/5 (with 1414 votes)
Taking Sides (German title Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler) is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British biographical drama film 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. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Taking Sides

European Film Award for Best Actor

About Taking Sides

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.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom (UK)
Main subject: Wilhelm Furtwängler (Person)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Russian (RU)
Translated into 12 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 01/01/2001
Director: István Szabó
Producer: Yves Pasquier
Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood
Film Editor: Sylvie Landra
Director of Photography: Lajos Koltai
Costume designer: Györgyi Szakács
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Budget: 20,000,000 USD

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