Gauze vs Taking Sides
Gauze has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Gauze is the shorter watch at 8m compared with 1h 48m. Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2025). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Gauze
Taking Sides| Gauze | Taking Sides | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2002 |
| Length | 8m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, War | Drama, Music, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Nicholas Arujah, Noran Fikri Alezabi | István Szabó |
| Main cast | Bashir Alsharbati, Talia Alsharbati, Rasha Alsharbati, Ahmed Rehan, Mjd Ali | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård |
Synopsis
Gauze
14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops into the sea, desperate for food, Zain is forced to swim - not for passion, but for survival.
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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