Directed by:
Matti GeschonneckCinematography:
Theo BierkensCast:
Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer, Maximilian Brückner, Matthias Bundschuh, Fabian Busch, Jakob Diehl, Godehard Giese, Peter Jordan, Arnd Klawitter (more)Plots(1)
On the morning of January 20th, 1942, in a villa on the Großen Wannsee in Berlin leading members of the Nazi regime came together. SS, Reichskanselli, ministries, police, administration. Reinhard Heydrich had invited them to a "meeting followed by breakfast". This meeting would go down in history as the "Wannsee Conference". The sole topic on the agenda that morning was what the Nazis called the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question": the organization of the systematic mass murder of millions of Jews throughout Europe. The film follows the minutes of this meeting as recorded by Adolf Eichmann, of which only one copy remains, and which is a key document pertaining to the Holocaust. The Conference is a chilling document of beuraucratized evil. (The Norwegian International Film Festival)
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This German film clearly surpasses Branagh's Conspiracy for me, which the director ruined for me with his self-centeredness combined with a lack of judgment. I just couldn't help feeling that his Heydrich might suddenly put on a green top hat and start jingling a bag of gold coins with a ferocious laugh. Although Philipp Hochmair didn't exactly look like a Reich protector, at least he didn't have a jolly Irish face. I often think and write about myself as a cynic, but I don't even come close to the crowd at this villa. I felt as if I was watching a board meeting of a production company with everything that comes with it, except the actual production, and its result were outside my comfort zone. Gray, cold, and grim like a concrete cell. / Lesson learned: This time, I have none. Humanity will never learn in certain respects.
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