| 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
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 Eichmanns adjutant
 
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[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
- 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
 - ↑ 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). Retrieved 2022-06-23.
 - 1 2 APA. "Elf Auszeichnungen für ORF-(Ko-)Produktionen bei den "ROMY"-Branchenpreisen". ots.at. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
 - ↑ "PRIX EUROPA 2022 Winners". PRIX EUROPA. 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. "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
 
