Taking Sides

Taking Sides (German title Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler, i. e. The Furtwängler Case) is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British biographical drama film directed by István Szabó and starring Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård. The story is set during the period of denazification investigations conducted in post-war Germany after the Second World War, and it is based on the real interrogations that took place between a U.S. Army investigator and the musical conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had been charged with serving the Nazi regime. It is based on the 1995 play of the same title by Ronald Harwood. The film was shot on location in Germany with the dialogue in German and English, although in the version released in the US and the UK the dialogue is only in Englis