Taking Sides vs The Yellow Tie
The Yellow Tie has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Taking Sides is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 2h 25m. Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2025). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Taking Sides
The Yellow Tie| Taking Sides | The Yellow Tie | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 2h 25m |
| Genres | Drama, Music, War | Adventure, Drama, History, Music |
| Country | – | Romania |
| Director | István Szabó | Serge Ioan Celebidachi |
| Main cast | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård | Tamzin Merchant, Anton Lesser, Miranda Richardson, John Malkovich, Sean Bean |
Synopsis
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…
The Yellow Tie
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.
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