---
title: 'Taking Sides (2001)'
type: 'film'
director: 'István Szabó'
released: '2001-09-13'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
  - 'Austria'
  - 'Hungary'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/taking-sides-2001'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260414/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Taking Sides (2001)

2001 · 110 min · Drama, War, Music · Germany, United Kingdom, France, Austria, Hungary


## Synopsis

Taking Sides 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [István Szabó](https://cinepixo.com/people/istvan-szabo)
- **Screenplay:** [Ronald Harwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-harwood)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ludwig van Beethoven](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludwig-van-beethoven)
- **Producer:** [Yves Pasquier](https://cinepixo.com/people/yves-pasquier)
- **Director of Photography:** [Lajos Koltai](https://cinepixo.com/people/lajos-koltai)
- **Editor:** [Sylvie Landra](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvie-landra)

## Cast

- [Stellan Skarsgård](https://cinepixo.com/people/stellan-skarsgard)
- [Hanns Zischler](https://cinepixo.com/people/hanns-zischler)
- [R. Lee Ermey](https://cinepixo.com/people/r-lee-ermey)
- [Oleg Tabakov](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-tabakov)
- [Armin Rohde](https://cinepixo.com/people/armin-rohde)
- [Moritz Bleibtreu](https://cinepixo.com/people/moritz-bleibtreu)
- [Frank Leboeuf](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-leboeuf)
- [Harvey Keitel](https://cinepixo.com/people/harvey-keitel)
- [Robin Renucci](https://cinepixo.com/people/robin-renucci)
- [Thomas Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-morris)
- [Birgit Minichmayr](https://cinepixo.com/people/birgit-minichmayr)
- [Ulrich Tukur](https://cinepixo.com/people/ulrich-tukur)

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