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Major Steve Arnold, a fictional American interrogator portrayed by Jewish actor
Harvey Keitel, counters that Furtwangler made only token efforts at resistance.
Americans in particular can't bear
Major Arnold, whom they regard as a
caricature, a bully, a Philistine.
"But I always point out that he's
the only character in the entire piece
who talks about the dead. Everyone
else talks about art and music and
culture, but Arnold has seen the car-
nage at Belsen, and it haunts him."
Harwood (ne Horwitz), 68, was
similarly haunted by concentration
camp footage he saw in his native
South Africa at age 12. "The Reform
synagogue took all the Jewish chil-
dren to see these awful newsreels,
and it had a terrible effect on me,"
he said. "I had nightmares, and it's
scarred me all my life."
Meanwhile, Harwood's father, who
had fled Lithuanian pogroms, regard-
ed apartheid as someone else's prob-
lem. "He'd say, 'Just thank God it
isn't us,'" the author recalled. "It was
a prevalent sentiment among Jewish
refugees in Cape Town after the war.
But it seemed to me that oppressed
people should care about the fate of
other oppressed people."
Harwood, for his part, wrote several
anti-apartheid novels after moving to
England to attend the Royal Academy
of Dramatic Art in 1951. After his
1980 play, The Dresser, was made into
an Oscar-nominated film, he served as
president of the human-rights organi-
zation International PEN.
But eventually, he began feeling
uneasy about taking sides from a
distance.
"It was quite fashionable and risk free
to criticize South Africa from London,"
he said, wryly. "I was extremely brave,
from 6,000 miles away."
Harwood wondered how outspo-
ken he would have been had he lived
in a totalitarian society — which is
why he was riveted by a 1994 book
on Furtwangler's dilemma.
"I loved the ambiguity of his case,"
said the author, who views Hitler's
favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl,
as an "unabashed Nazi." He went on
to comb archives for de-Nazification
transcripts and to interview officials
who had supervised such proceedings.
"They were morally brutal," he said.
"They bullied people, and they did
behave in an extreme way. But they
had just seen the camps, and no one
in the world had seen that before."
After director Roman Polanski saw
the theater production of Taking Sides
in Paris, he asked the author to write
another script involving music and
the Holocaust, 2002's The Pianist.
But even Polanski doesn't know
which side Harwood personally takes
regarding Furtwangler. "Look, I
won't even tell my wife," he said.
"Of course, I might leave a little
note to be opened after my death,"
he added, coyly. "But I want audi-
ence members to make up their own
minds. I don't want them to think
I'm plugging a line." ❑
Taking Sides is scheduled to open
Friday, Nov. 28, at the Maple Art
Theatre in Bloomfield Township.
Check your local movie listings,
as start dates are subject to
change. (248) 542-0180.
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Veal Parmigiana • Chicken Parmigiana
Chicken Strips • Baked Lasagna
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