The Wannsee Conference (1984)

Movie
Original title	The Wannsee Conference
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1984
length	85 minutes
Rod
Director	Heinz Schirk
script	Paul Mommertz
production	Siegfried B. Gloeckner
camera	Horst Schier
cut	Ulla Möllinger
occupation
Dietrich Mattausch : Reinhard Heydrich Harald Dietl : Dr. Alfred Meyer Jochen Busse : Dr. Georg Leibbrandt Peter Fitz : Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart Dieter Groest : Erich Neumann Rainer Steffen : Dr. Roland Freisler Reinhard Glemnitz : Dr. Josef Bühler Hans-Werner Bussinger : Martin Luther Günter Spörrle : Gerhard Klopfer Franz Rudnick : Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger Robert Atzorn : Otto Hofmann Friedrich G. Beckhaus : Heinrich Müller Gerd Böckmann : Adolf Eichmann Gerd Rigauer : Dr. Karl Eberhard Schöngarth Martin Lüttge : Dr. Rudolf Lange Anita Mally : secretary

The Wannsee Conference is a German television film from 1984 .

action

The film is set in Berlin on January 20, 1942 . The SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich has invited representatives of various ministries and agencies of the Third Reich to a conference in a villa on the Großer Wannsee . The session lasts approximately 85 minutes. The film documents the course of this meeting, which has gone down in history as the Wannsee Conference . At the request of Hermann Göring, this group, headed by Heydrich, advises organizational questions in connection with the so-called final solution of the Jewish question (see also Holocaust ). The film was made on the basis of the original protocol.

Reviews

“The film tries to give an authentic account of this momentous conference by maintaining the unity of place and time; an impressive and harrowing documentary play; originated for television, has meanwhile been used in cinemas in several countries. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Screenwriter Paul Mommertz, 54, is delighted: 'An optimal film, on a remarkable level.' The praise goes above all to the director Heinz Schirk, and rightly so: he understood it with a squad of proven actors, above all Dietrich Mattausch in the role of Heydrich and Gerd Böckmann as Eichmann, the Mommertz play that atmosphere of racist mania for cleansing and callous bureaucratic perfection that made the Wannsee Conference the most horrific Hitlerite in Germany. But what is presented here as a document-safe reconstruction of contemporary history, on closer inspection, proves to be a product of televised fabulous fabulousness and combination. Because: This is not the Wannsee Conference as historians know it. It's the Wannsee Conference a la Paul Mommertz. "

- Heinz Höhne : A trap of concern . In: Der SPIEGEL 51/1984

Awards

• Adolf Grimme Prize
• Silver nymph in Monte Carlo
• Prize of the World Television Festival in Tokyo

Remake

In 2001 the Wannsee Conference was filmed again according to the traditional minutes .

Web links

• The Wannsee Conference in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Wannsee Conference at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Wannsee Conference. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Heinz Höhne: A trap of concern . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1984, pp. 72-80 ( online - December 17, 1984 , cited p. 72).