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Taking Sides (2002) [N/A]

Release Date:
March 7, 2002

Original Title:
Taking Sides

Genres:
Drama | Music | War

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

Production Countries:
Austria | France | Germany | United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
CA: 18A  IT: NR 

Runtime: 108

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Associate Producer:
Gisela Waetzoldt-Hildebrandt

Casting:
Heta Mantscheff
Caroline Hutchings
Gillian Hawser

Costume Design:
Györgyi Szakács

Director:
István Szabó

Director of Photography:
Lajos Koltai

Editor:
Sylvie Landra

Producer:
Yves Pasquier

Production Design:
Ken Adam

Screenplay:
Ronald Harwood

Set Decoration:
Bernhard Henrich

Supervising Art Director:
Anja Müller

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