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Taking Sides

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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Moritz Bleibtreu \| Harvey Keitel \| Birgit Minichmayr \| Armin Rohde \| Stellan Skarsgard \| Ulrich Tukur \| Oleg Tabakov \| August Zirner

Director:	Istvan Szabo \| Lajos Koltai

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 16:9,Widescreen

Languages:	English

Subtitles:	English for the hearing impaired

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 0

Release Date:	06 September 2004

Availability:	In stock \| Usually dispatched within 24 hours

Taking Sides - based on true events - recreates the suspenseful post-World War II interrogation of Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler (Stellan Skarsgard), the brilliant conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, who is considered by some to have been the most legendary conductor of the 20th century. In the course of his de-Nazification by the Allies, Furtwangler is forced by a tough-talking American Major (Harvey Keitel) to re-examine his role during the Third Reich in the most uncompromising of terms.

The confrontation between the soft-spoken cultural icon of the old world and the rough, emotional hard-hitter from the new world, makes for some electrifying verbal pyrotechnics, and brings the role of the artist in an evil regime into the limelight, to be examined along with all the other moral issues and ambiguities emerging from World War II.