Conspiracy (TV 2001) 7.7
A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised. Director:Frank PiersonWriter:Loring Mandel |
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Conspiracy (TV 2001) 7.7
A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised. Director:Frank PiersonWriter:Loring Mandel |
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Clare Bullus | ... |
Maid
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| Stanley Tucci | ... | ||
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Simon Markey | ... |
Stenographer
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David Glover | ... |
Supervising Butler
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David Willoughby | ... |
Orderly #1
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| Tom Hiddleston | ... |
Phone Operator
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David Spinx | ... |
Cook
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Dirk Martens | ... |
NCO
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| Barnaby Kay | ... | ||
| Peter Sullivan | ... | ||
| Ben Daniels | ... | ||
| Andreas Günther | ... |
NCO2
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Ewan Stewart | ... | |
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Brian Pettifer | ... | |
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust. Written by Anthony Hughes <husnock31@hotmail.com>
The other reviewer her could not be more wrong, and shows a lack of historical knowledge. Heydrich WAS rushing to get through the meeting -- that was why it only lasted 90 minutes! The meeting was not held to plot the Holocost, but rather was a staged production organized by the SS (who already had started planning the final solution and embarked on mass murder at smaller scales 7 months earlier)to obtain administrative and cooperative buy-in from the other facets of the German government, and their recognition of the SS's total authority over carrying it out. And Heydrich was alternatively charming and then abrupt and short: he was head of the Gestapo, after all. Although Branagh is much smaller and better looking than Heydrich was, he does what an actor does -- capture the essence of a presence, the gist of the personality. Likewise, Tucci embodies the "banality of evil" -- a schedule obsessed numbers & detail man, an accountant concerned only with pleasing his superiors and making mass murder efficient, while dissociating himself from the meaning and consequences of his actions.
Although not as well-acted, the German language Wansee Conference is actually a bit better in imparting the agenda-driven business meeting quality of the event. Anyone who has ever been to a business planning meeting (in any business, but especially in government or regulated utility during budget planning time) cannot help but feel sick at the ordinary familiarity of it all. Replace killing people with making and marketing widgets, and you got it.