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Taking Sides is a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, about the post-War U.S. "denazification" investigation of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwngler on charges of having served the Nazi regime. Harwood drew inter alia on a detailed diary kept by Furtwngler of his interrogation sessions. Although the investigation that is the focus of the play resulted in formal charges being brought against Furtwngler, he was eventually cleared by the tribunal.<br />
In 2001 the play was converted into a motion picture directed by Hungarian director Istvn Szab, starring Harvey Keitel as the lead American investigator, Major Steve Arnold, and featuring Stellan Skarsgrd in the role of Furtwngler.<br />
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