Movie Description:
After Hitler took over power in 1933 many Jewish artists were forced to leave Germany. Wilhelm Furtwangler choseto stayserving as one of the Nazisforemost cultural assets. Though never amember of the party Furtwangler was the recipient of government honors and appointments associated with partymembers. However the conductor often used his position and contacts to save hundreds of jewish musicians from the concentration camps. When Major Steve Arnold is given the task of carrying out pre trial investig-ations against Furtwangler his aim is toprove that the conductors artisticgenius contributed to the Nazi propagan-da machine and theri destructive ideolo-gy. Conversely Furtwangler insists he chose to stay to bring comfort to theGerman people with his music.
