The Conference
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 20 January 1942, in a villa on the lakefront of the Wannsee in Berlin, leading members of the Nazi regime came together. They had been invited by Reinhard Heydrich to a meeting followed by breakfast; 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 across Europe. (Madman Entertainment)
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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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