Taking Sides (film)

Taking Sides
German film poster
Directed by	István Szabó
Written by	Ronald Harwood (play and screenplay)
Produced by	Yves Pasquier
Starring	Harvey Keitel Stellan Skarsgård Moritz Bleibtreu Birgit Minichmayr Ulrich Tukur Oleg Tabakov R. Lee Ermey
Cinematography	Lajos Koltai
Edited by	Sylvie Landra
Release dates	13 September 2001 (Toronto International Film Festival) 16 February 2002 (Germany) 30 April 2002 (France) 5 September 2003 (US) 21 November 2003 (UK)
Countries	Germany France Austria UK
Languages	English (UK/US version) German and English (international version)

Taking Sides (German title Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler) is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British^[1] 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 English.