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Taking Sides

Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Drama based on true events. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic is interrogated by a tough-talking American major and forced to re-examine his role during the Third Reich in the most uncompromising of terms. The confrontation between the soft-spoken cultural icon of the old world and the rough, emotional hard-hitter from the new world brings the role of the artist living under an evil regime into the limelight. Show less

Contributors

Major Steve Arnold:
Harvey Keitel
Dr Wilhelm Furtwangler:
Stellan Skarsgard
Lt David Wills:
Moritz Bleibtreu
Emmi Straube:
Birgit Minichmayr
Helmut Alfred Rode:
Ulrich Tukur
Rudolph Otto Werner:
Hanns Zischler
General Wallace:
R Lee Ermey

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