Taking Sides
07/03/2002
2h

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
Steve Arnold


Stellan Skarsgård
Wilhelm Furtwängler


Moritz Bleibtreu
David Wills


R. Lee Ermey
General Wallace


Birgit Minichmayr
Emmi Straube


Ulrich Tukur
Helmut Rode


Oleg Tabakov
Colonel Dymshitz


Hanns Zischler
Rudolf Werner


Armin Rohde
Schlee


Daniel White
Sergeant Adams


August Zirner
Ed Martin


Thomas Thieme
Reichsminister


Jed Curtis
Colonel Green


Garrick Hagon
Major Richards


Robin Renucci
Captain Vernay
Markus Heinicke
Attendant
Aleksandar Tesla
Projectionist


Jarreth J. Merz
US Soldier


Holger Schober
Steve's Driver


Frank Lebœuf
French Aide
Philip Bowen
US Aide


Thomas Morris
British Sergant
Peter Döring
British Officer


Rinat Shaham
Jazz Singer
Henry Schindler
U.K. Aide
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