Conspiracy () - full transcript
Adolph Hitler invaded Poland
in September,
By the winter of ,
his armies were freezing and starving
in the snows of Russia, where his
best general had died of a heart attack
and America had entered the war.
For the first time,
Hitler&#;s dream of a German empire
to last 1, years was in doubt.
While he hired and fired generals
and the winter grew colder
of his officials were ordered
from their commands and ministries
to meet in a quiet lakeside residence
in Wannsee, in Berlin
far from the crisis at the front.
In two hours,
these men changed the world forever.
Only one record of what was
said and done here survives
from the wreckage of what was
the Thousand-Year Reich.
- How many rolls?
- Enough for four hours, sir.
Too many. Two hours worth
should be sufficient.
Do we have enough? How many fell?
I am sure we have a sizable inventory, sir.
You are sure, or you know?
Itemize the cost. He pays.
Make it a separate report to me.
And keep him where I don&#;t see him.
All right, then. Let&#;s look smart.
No silence in Latvia.
No silence like this.
You&#;re surprised it&#;s
One of my contacts brought this film to my attention a few years ago, and I tracked it down on Crave. It is a complete coincidence that this movie also has Colin Firth in a supporting role (see my earlier post about the Operation Mincemeat film). Add in Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci&#; and I was intrigued to see what this film had to offer. I actually watched it two years ago (during the dull, dark days of Covid) but found it so disturbing that I didn&#;t feel I could write about it without sobbing uncontrollably. I recently watched it again and here we are.
The movie covers a few short hours on 20 January when a group of high-ranking Nazi officials met at a villa in Wannsee, on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting had been called by Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh), of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) to get the cooperation of various Reich ministries and organizations in implementing the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
With the Soviet front stalled during a harsh winter, the Nazis found themselves facing shortages of food, fuel and other commodities. As Adolf Eichmann (Stanley Tucci) noted early in the meeting, there were millions of Jews in Russia, as wel
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On January 20th , 15 men gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin to feast on food and drink and discuss their business at hand. An hour and a half later, the Final Solution had been planned, sealing the fate of millions of European Jews.
Conspiracy: The Meeting at Wannsee - which was recently nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won two Emmy Awards - stars Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich, Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann and Colin Firth as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart. It recreates one of the most infamous gatherings in world history - the meeting at Wannsee, outside Berlin, when the administrative apparatus of the Third Reich was mobilised by Reinhard Heydrich to set in motion the detailed plans of the Final Solution.
Adolf Eichmann prepared 30 top-secret copies of the meetings minutes. By the fall of the Reich, they had all disappeared or been destroyed - all but one. Conspiracy is based on the sole surviving copy of the Wannsee Protocol, which was found in the files of the Reichs Foreign Off
The Red Phoenix
By Alfonso Casalon
On January 20, , fifteen high-ranking members of the Nazi Party, the SS, the fascist economic administration, and the government bureaucracy were summoned to a top-secret meeting in the quiet Berlin suburb of Wansee. There was only one item on the agenda. The meeting lasted all of 90 minutes. At its close, the attendees were granted time to memorize their notes, as all scratch paper and note pads were to be collected and burned. There was to be no trace of this meeting ever having taken place. Hosted by SS-ObergruppenfuhrerReinhard Heydrich, head of Reich Security and second-in-command of the SS, the meeting had a single purpose: to orchestrate the annihilation of 11 million people.
This chilling event, known to historians as the Wansee Conference, is the subject of director Frank Pierson’s film, Conspiracy. Pierson ( – ), whose other films included The Looking Glass War (), A Star is Born (), and Citizen Cohn (), based his interpretation entirely on the single known surviving record of the Wansee Conference, a transcript of the meeting which was discovered buried in the archives of the Nazi Foreign Of
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