Taking Sides (108 min; 2001; dvd; English)

Director: István Szabó

Multiple award winner including Special Award, Hungarian Film Critics Awards 2003; ADF Cinematography Award; Best Actor; Best Director; Kodak Award; Signis Award, Mar del Plata Film Festival 2002; Jury Prize, Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films 2002

Film on the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler. Taking Sides offers an intriguing examination of the role of an artist under a tyrannical regime - which, in the case of the Nazis, was one that revered classical music. To what extent can an individual be blamed for a society's atrocities