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
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
- 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
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.1/10.[5]
Awards and nominations
- 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[8]
New York Festivals TV & Film Awards
- 2022: Feature Films (Gold Award)[11]
- 2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich)[12]
- 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot[13]
- 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz[13]
- 2022: Best European TV Film[14]
Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis
- 2022: Best Film[15]
Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden
See also
- 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Die Wannseekonferenz". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ Der Deutsche Fernsehpreis. "Preisträger:innen 2022". Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2022 (in German). Retrieved 2022-10-24.
- ^ Grimme Preis. "Preisträger:innen - Grimme-Preis 2023". Grimme Preis (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "The conference and the accusation, the big winners of the BCN Film Fest". bcnfilmfest.com. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ "Ausgezeichnete Programme 2022" (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ "CIVIS Medienpreis 2022 für "Schwarze Adler" und "Die Wannseekonferenz"" (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ "Newyorkfestivals.com: Winner's List". Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ "Beliebtester Schauspieler Film 2022: Philipp Hochmair" (in German). 23 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ^ a b APA. "Elf Auszeichnungen für ORF-(Ko-)Produktionen bei den "ROMY"-Branchenpreisen". Ots.at. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "PRIX EUROPA 2022 Winners". PRIX EUROPA. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "Günter Rohrbach Filmpreis |" (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-06.
- ^ "TeleVisionale Film- und Serienfestival Baden-Baden: ORF-Landkrimi "Vier" gewinnt Fernsehfilmpreis 2022". OTS.at (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ deutschlandfunkkultur.de (26 November 2022). "TeleVisionale: Bester deutscher Fernsehfilm 2022 ist "Vier" – 3sat-Publikumspreis für "Die Wannseekonferenz"". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-10.
External links
- Die Wannseekonferenz Press release in the Press portal of the ZDF
- Die Wannseekonferenz (2022, en The Wannsee Conference)
- Die Wannseekonferenz at IMDb
- Matti Geschonneck at IMDb
- Catalogue, exhibition - The Meeting at Wannsee and the Murder of the European Jews
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