Taking Sides
2002 · 108 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 4,005 VOTES · DIR. István Szabó
Overview
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,501 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:20 (GUITAR STRUMMING)
00:05:22 Very avant-garde. And we've got a theater troupe in the barn.
00:09:30 But, Ma... Electricity, detergent
00:13:06 and blew all his Army pay. Didn't he, Billy?
00:16:42 (ALL HUFFlNG)
00:21:26 Yeah, you're not fucking normal, Elliot. No.
00:27:37 You're kidding me. He owns it.
00:32:11 Well, it depends on how you define room.
00:35:38 thousands of tickets, and that's a lot.
00:39:51 Elliot! God bless you. Hi, Annie.
00:44:50 But we're working on it. We're gonna want to run lines
00:47:13 Hey, hey, you guys, the phones are alive.
00:51:06 Not yet! Soon!
00:55:34 doesn't he, our Steven? He's very...
00:59:27 (RAlN PATTERlNG)
01:04:11 (BREATHES DEEPLY)
01:07:53 who have adapted Anton Chekhov's classic, Three Sisters
01:12:26 They've made all the roads one-way now, Elli, one-way just to Max's.
01:17:38 We can take care of things here.
01:24:11 And we left our trip in the car.
01:34:35 Right.
01:42:24 (SHUSHlNG) Dad.
01:48:51 I would think to myself, "It's nice of Elli to come back here
100:00:00 will attend the concert?
Cast & Characters
Harvey Keitel
Major Steve Arnold
Stellan Skarsgård
Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler
Moritz Bleibtreu
Lt. David Wills
Birgit Minichmayr
Emmi Straube
Ulrich Tukur
Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist
Oleg Tabakov
Colonel Dymshitz
Hanns Zischler
Rudolf Otto Werner, oboist
Armin Rohde
Schlee, timpanist
R. Lee Ermey
General Wallace
August Zirner
Captain Ed Martin
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,501
Dialogue density13.9 lines / min
First line00:00:20
Final line100:00:00
Production Record
DirectorIstván Szabó
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20,000,000
IMDb votes4,005