Taking Sides

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Alain E @AlainE May 15 A very good movie about claiming moral ambiguity and committing acts of self deception. We know that after the war people who lived next to the concentration camps maintained that they had no idea what transpired. The crematoria smell presumably was from 24/7 barbecue parties. Keitel gives an excellent performance as the rather crude, but ultimately on the right side of history US military officer. The documentary scenes at the end puts to rest the claim that Furtwangler was an unwilling participant to the Third Reich. He deserved to be sanctioned and never allowed to conduct in the United States. By the time the movie was released in 2003, little k (von Karajan) was already 14 years dead. However, far from being an opposition figure, he was also a member of the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945. On Tubi. See more Alec B @Alec97 05/27/2024 The things that frustrated a lot of people about the movie are probably the best things about it, especially the deep uncertainty of the ending. See more Brian L @Snowman1313 06/13/2022 Don't think you understand where this movie is going and passively sit through to the end. Listen carefully and you will learn something. Guilt or innocence is in the eye of the beholder and both can be true at the same time. See more steve d @RT35616104 06/28/2020 Complex story with no easy answers, that and some great performances make it an interesting watch. See more 01/02/2014 Based on a true story, this film talks about the war crime interrogations of well respected Berlin Philarmonic orchestra conductor Furtwangler. Szabo's film revolves more around a theatrical formula than a cinematic one. This, of course, would have seemed more admirable had the film had the right kind of screenplay, but the approach seems to diminish the film's important themes and in the end only serves as a great vehicle for the great performances by Skarsgard and Keitel. See more 06/22/2012 Horrible acting. Couldn't get through 30 minutes. See more Read all reviews

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