Taking Sides (2001)
- Directed by
- István Szabó
- Genre
- drama film, war film, musical film
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, France, Austria
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- 18A
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 49 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A U.S. Army investigator interrogates a famous German conductor about his actions during the Nazi era. The story focuses on the clash between the investigator's rigid view of guilt and the conductor's complex justifications.
restrainedtensethought-provokingmelancholicslow-burnmoral ambiguityatmosphericintense
What happens
Taking Sides (German title Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler, i. e. The Furtwängler Case) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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