Taking Sides

2002 6.2 (44 votes) 1h 48m

Genres

Drama War Music

Production Companies

Paladin Production S.A.
Maecenas Film- und Fernseh GmbH
Studio Babelsberg
Little Big Bear Filmproduktion GmbH

Overview

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.