In compelling, suspenseful fashion, “Taking Sides” illuminates brilliantly the dilemma of a great, world-renowned artist flourishing in a totalitarian regime. The artist in question was Wilhelm ...
A career-best performance by Stellan Skarsgard gives pathos and dignity to Istvan Szabo's "Taking Sides," an over-polarized but often moving examination of an artist's travails under totalitarianism ...
THE LOWDOWN: The musical passion of legendary German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. Like the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler seemed to burst onto the musical scene ...