Die Wannseekonferenz (2022 film)
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| Die Wannseekonferenz | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Docudrama Historical drama |
| Written by | Magnus Vattrodt Paul Mommertz |
| Directed by | Matti Geschonneck |
| Starring | Philipp Hochmair Arnd Klawitter Johannes Allmayer |
| Narrated by | Matthias Brandt |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| Production | |
| Producers | Friederich Oetker Reinhold Elschot |
| Cinematography | Theo Bierkens |
| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Production companies | Constantin Television ZDF |
| Original release | |
| Network | ZDF |
| Release | 24 January 2022 |
Die Wannseekonferenz, international title The Conference, is a German TV docudrama, first aired January 24, 2022 by the ZDF broadcaster, about the Wannsee Conference held in Berlin-Wannsee in 1942 to organise the extermination of the Jews.
Background
[edit | edit source]Director Matti Geschonneck shows a reenactment of the real Wannsee Conference held January 20, 1942, based on a script by Magnus Vattrodt. German Nazi officials meet midst the Second World War to determine the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. It is not the beginning of the Shoah but it is a meeting to coordinate various government branches for carrying out the destruction of Jews.[1][2]
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Philipp Hochmair as Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
- Johannes Allmayer as Adolf Eichmann, Head of RSHA IV B4
- Sascha Nathan as Dr. Josef Bühler
- Arnd Klawitter as Dr. Roland Freisler, for the Reich Ministry of Justice
- Markus Schleinzer as Otto Hofmann
- Fabian Busch as Dr. Gerhard Klopfer
- Thomas Loibl as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
- Frederic Linkemann as Dr. Rudolf Lange
- Rafael Stachowiak as Georg Leibbrandt
- Simon Schwarz as Martin Luther
- Peter Jordan as Dr. Alfred Meyer
- Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller, Chief of RSHA Department IV (the Gestapo)
- Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann
- Maximilian Brückner as Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth
- Godehard Giese as Wilhelm Stuckart, for the Reich Ministry for the Interior
- Lilli Fichtner as Ingeburg Werlemann
- Frederik Schmid as Eichmann's adjutant
Reception
[edit | edit source]Critical response
[edit | edit source]On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.1/10.
Awards and nominations
[edit | edit source]- 2022: Best Film Made for Television
- 2022: Best Writing Fiction – Paul Mommertz and Magnus Vattrodt
- 2022: Best Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Nominee)
- 2022: Best Directing Fiction – Matti Geschonneck (Nominee)
- 2023: Fiction
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
- 2022: Best Film[7]
New York Festivals TV & Film Awards
- 2022: Feature Films (Gold Award)[10]
- 2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich)[11]
- 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot[12]
- 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz[12]
- 2022: Best European TV Film[13]
Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis
- 2022: Best Film[14]
Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden
See also
[edit | edit source]- Heinz Schirk (director): The Wannsee Conference, a 1984 German TV film
- Conspiracy – a 2001 English language film
- Fatherland – an alternate history novel dealing in large part with the Wannsee Conference - 1992
- List of Holocaust films
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Peter Kümmel: Unter Verbrechern (Amongst Perpetrators). In: Die Zeit. 20 January 2022. Feuilleton.
- ^ Wolfgang Höbel: Die Brillanz des Bösen. (The Brilliance of Evil) Der Spiegel #3/2022. 15 January 2022, pp 120–121: A nearly "normal" meeting of bureaucrats for optimising of the mass murder (transl.)
- ^ GHWK, Berlin - Dauerausstellung "Die Besprechung am Wannsee und der Mord an den europäischen Jüdinnen und Juden"
- ^ '80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes. As Germany observes the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, witnesses of the Nazi era are dying … ' NYT 21 January 2022
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Die Wannseekonferenz Press release in the Press portal of the ZDF
- Die Wannseekonferenz (2022, en The Wannsee Conference)
- Die Wannseekonferenz at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Matti Geschonneck at IMDb
- Catalogue, exhibition - The Meeting at Wannsee and the Murder of the European Jews