- Summary: A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwängler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era.
- Director: István Szabó
- Genre(s): Drama, War, Music
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91After a somewhat shaky start, the film gradually settles in to become another extraordinarily powerful and explosively acted drama that deftly probes the moral responsibility of an artist in a totalitarian society.
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60Powerful, personal, but bombastic.
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30The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia and of innocence tarnished by association are ones that have been more powerfully explored before.
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