Movie
2001
Taking Sides is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British 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,…
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Istvan Szabo stands unchallenged as arguably the greatest living Hungarian filmmaker, his reputation meticulously constructed over decades through period dramas that dissect the tumultuous twentieth century of Central Europe—a century scarred by world wars, revolutions, and authoritarian regimes. Among his distinguished oeuvre, *Mephisto* (1981) remains his most celebrated achievement, an Academy Award-winning maste…More
