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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Harvey Keitel
Steve Arnold
Known for
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Stellan Skarsgård
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Known for
Chernobyl
Andor
Moritz Bleibtreu
David Wills
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Run Lola Run
The Experiment
R. Lee Ermey
General Wallace
Known for
Full Metal Jacket
Se7en
Birgit Minichmayr
Emmi Straube
Known for
Downfall
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Ulrich Tukur
Helmut Rode
Known for
The Lives of Others
Amen.
Oleg Tabakov
Colonel Dymshitz
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Hanns Zischler
Rudolf Werner
Known for
Munich
Black Island
Armin Rohde
Schlee
Known for
Run Lola Run
Contagion
Daniel White
Sergeant Adams
Also in
Revenge in the House of Usher
Daughter of Dracula
August Zirner
Ed Martin
Known for
Colonia
The Counterfeiters
Thomas Thieme
Reichsminister
Known for
Babylon Berlin
The Lives of Others
István Szabó Director · Ronald Harwood Screenplay Lajos Koltai Cinematographer
Budget $20M · First release September 13, 2001 · Produced in Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom
Box office
Budget
$20,000,000
Production
Paladin Production S.A.
Production
Maecenas Film- und Fernseh GmbH
Production
Studio Babelsberg
Production
Little Big Bear Filmproduktion GmbH
Production
MBP
Production
Satel Film
Production
Spice Factory
Production
Austria · Germany · France · United Kingdom
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French · German · Russian
Release dates
Canada · September 13, 2001
Premiere · Source: IMDB (Toronto)
Germany · March 7, 2002
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Italy
March 22, 2002 · Theatrical
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