The Wannsee Conference (2001)

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Movie
German title The Wannsee Conference
Original title Conspiracy
Country of production United States
United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Frank Pierson
script Loring almond
production Nick Gillott
camera Stephen Goldblatt
cut Peter Zinner
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The Wannsee Conference (original title: Conspiracy ) is an American - British film drama from 2001 . The film shows the most on documentary approach, 20th January 1942 conducted Wannsee conference , during which the " final solution was discussed."

The film was produced by the BBC and Home Box Office .

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On January 20, 1942, 15 representatives of the SS and the German ministries and offices met for a secret conference that took place in Berlin in the villa on the Großer Wannsee . SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann has been entrusted with the preparation of the conference and the taking of the minutes. He has a buffet and drinks served before the participants of the conference arrive one after the other at the villa. The last to arrive is SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich , who invited to the conference and leads it.

At the beginning of the conference, Heydrich read out a letter of authorization from Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring , who commissioned Heydrich with the “ final solution to the Jewish question ”. Heydrich understands his mission to mean that there should no longer be any Jews in Germany or in the areas occupied by Germany .

Details of the Nuremberg Laws are explained as well as the possibilities of sterilization to prevent the Jews from fathering children. However, Heydrich repeatedly speaks of "evacuations" and it turns out in the course of the conference that the SS had long since prepared the mass extermination of the Jews. Heydrich uses the conference to force the participants to cooperate. Those who express their concerns are “straightened out” by him during a private conversation during the break. The conference ends with everyone present agreeing to a Holocaust that will leave deep traces in German history.

When Heydrich, Eichmann and SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller were still sitting together after the conference, Heydrich recounted the story that Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger told him during the break, about a man who felt more saddened at the death of his hated father than at the death of his beloved mother, since the hatred of the father had filled his whole life. With this story, Kritzinger wanted to warn against subordinating everything to hatred of the Jews. In conclusion, Heydrich says “I will not miss her”.

At the end of the film (deposited with the second movement of the string quintet by Franz Schubert) the audience is informed about what happened to the conference participants later. The film plot is based on the only available minutes of the Wannsee Conference . All other transcripts of the minutes were destroyed because the conference never officially took place.

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Reviews

TV 14 (13/2006) wrote that the film was "oppressively authentic".

Christopher Null described the film on www.filmcritic.com as "creepy", but not always "enlightening."

The Tagesspiegel wrote in its film review: “It doesn't really seem to fit that Kenneth Branagh gives Heydrich a human face. Branagh cannot, of course, be blamed for that. On the contrary: He rightly received an Emmy Award for his acting performance. "

The Schwäbische Zeitung praises the acting performances of Kenneth Branagh, who plays "the cold-blooded Heydrich with a cynical smile and blue ice eyes", and Stanley Tucci as SS officer Adolf Eichmann, who "gets to the heart of the character with remarkably economical facial expressions and gestures" .

Awards

Emmy Award

Kenneth Branagh and Loring Mandel won an Emmy Award in 2001 . The film received eight other Emmy Award nominations, including for Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth .

Golden Globe

Stanley Tucci won the Golden Globe in 2002 . Kenneth Branagh and Best TV Feature were nominated for the same award.

BAFTA Award

The production team won the 2003 BAFTA Award , Kenneth Branagh was nominated for the BAFTA Award.

Further awards

Locations

  • Berlin
  • House of the Wannsee Conference, Am Grossen Wannsee 56–58, Zehlendorf, Berlin.
  • London

Earlier film adaptation

The Wannsee Conference was filmed in a German production as early as 1984 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.filmcritic.com ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmcritic.com
  2. ↑ Screenplay of Terror. In: Der Tagesspiegel, January 29, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Docu-drama «The Wannsee Conference» . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , January 28, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2013.