[Movie Script]Taking Sides

                                      TAKING SIDES



by Ronald Harwood


adapted from the play by

Ronald Harwood


Final Draft, 1988


               FADE IN:



               INT. BERLIN CONCERT HALL (1944) - NIGHT



A man conducting Beethoven.  Air raid in progress.  Bombs

falling nearby.  The orchestra continues to play.  Suddenly

the lights go out.  The music stops.


               INT. BACKSTAGE CORRIDOR, CONCERT HALL - NIGHT



A beam from a torch, bouncing, making shadows.  An

ATTENDANT, carrying the torch, hurries down the corridor.

The air raid continues.


He comes to a door, knocks, opens it and looks in.


                                     ATTENDANT




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