Rotten
Schematic, didactic, and most of all, in the case of Keitel, woefully miscast.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
Director and cast
- István Szabó Director
- Harvey Keitel as Major Steve Arnold
- Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Lt. David Wills
- R. Lee Ermey as General Wallace
- Birgit Minichmayr as Emmi Straube
- Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist
- Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz
- Hanns Zischler as Rudolf Otto Werner, oboist
- Armin Rohde as Schlee, timpanist
- Daniel White as Sergeant Adams
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia ... are ones that have been more powerfully explored before.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
We're asked to jump into the combatants' arguments with no background about either one, no reason to care if Skarsgard sweats or Keitel rages.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh
The talk in this moral debate smokes with provocative drama and actors of weight.
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
Brilliantly acted and written, Taking Sides overcomes any shortcoming of its transition from stage to screen.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
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