Burning Stars vs Taking Sides
Burning Stars has the higher audience score (9.8/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2024). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burning Stars
Taking Sides| Burning Stars | Taking Sides | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.8/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2002 |
| Length | – | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, Music, War |
| Country | CN | – |
| Director | Xu Zhanxiong | István Szabó |
| Main cast | Jerry Lee, Gao Ge, Lu Qi, Dong Yong, Yu Ailei | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård |
Synopsis
Burning Stars
In 1920s Shanghai, a group of brave young individuals band together to carry out a dangerous mission, and amid political turmoil, they grow through sacrifice and resilience.
Taking Sides
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…
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