Taking Sides vs War and Music
War and Music has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2025). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Taking Sides
War and Music| Taking Sides | War and Music | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 8.5/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 48m | – |
| Genres | Drama, Music, War | Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | István Szabó | Sarik Andreasyan |
| Main cast | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård | Nicholay Kovbas, Michael Janibekyan, David Mkhitarel, Sergey Melkonyan, David Kotov-Oganesyan |
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…
War and Music
The war burst into the peaceful life of three friends suddenly, forever changing their destinies. Each of them went to the front, leaving the most valuable things at home in order to fight for this most valuable thing. Surprisingly, they are helped to survive in this fiery hell of battles with fascism, music. Taking musical instruments with them, friends play to maintain the morale of fellow soldiers, as well as to compose the leitmotif of…
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