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.

• István SzabóDirector
• Ronald HarwoodScreenplay

• Harvey KeitelSteve Arnold
• Stellan SkarsgårdWilhelm Furtwängler
• Moritz BleibtreuDavid Wills
• R. Lee ErmeyGeneral Wallace
• Birgit MinichmayrEmmi Straube
• Ulrich TukurHelmut Rode
• Oleg TabakovColonel Dymshitz
• Hanns ZischlerRudolf Werner
• Armin RohdeSchlee
• Daniel WhiteSergeant Adams
• August ZirnerEd Martin
• Thomas ThiemeReichsminister