The Wannsee Conference (German: Die Wannseekonferenz) is a 1984 German TV film portraying the events of the Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942. The script is derived from the minutes of the meeting.[1] Since no verbatim transcription of the meeting exists, the dialogue is necessarily fictionalised. The main theme of the film is the bureaucratic nature of the genocide.[2]
| The Wannsee Conference | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Heinz Schirk |
| Written by | Paul Mommertz |
| Based on | Wannsee Conference |
| Produced by | Siegfried B. Glökler |
| Edited by | Ulla Möllinger |
Production companies | Infafilm GmbH Manfred Korytowski Munich Austrian Television-O.R.F. Bavarian Broadcasting Corp. |
Release date | 1984 |
Running time | 85 minutes (Germany) 87 minutes (United States) |
| Countries | Austria West Germany |
| Language | German |
The same events were later depicted in the 2001 English-language film Conspiracy.
Cast edit
The cast of the 15 participants of the conference is as follows:
- Dietrich Mattausch as SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich: Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and Deputy Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia.
- Gerd Böckmann as SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann: Head of RSHA IV B4.
- Peter Fitz as Dr Wilhelm Stuckart: State Secretary, Reich Ministry for the Interior.
- Günter Spörrle as SS-Oberführer Dr Gerhard Klopfer: State Secretary, Party Chancellery.
- Hans-Werner Bussinger as Martin Luther: Undersecretary and SS liaison, Foreign Ministry.
- Franz Rudnick as Ministerialdirektor Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger: Deputy Head, Reich Chancellery.
- Jochen Busse as Dr Georg Leibbrandt: Head of Political Department, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
- Harald Dietl as Gauleiter Dr Alfred Meyer: Deputy Reich Minister, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
- Robert Atzorn as SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann: Chief of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office.
- Dieter Groest as SS-Sturmbannführer Erich Neumann: Director, Office of the Four Year Plan.
- Friedrich G. Beckhaus as SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller: Chief of RSHA Department IV (the Gestapo).
- Reinhard Glemnitz as Dr Josef Bühler: State Secretary for the General Government of occupied Poland.
- Martin Lüttge as SS-Sturmbannführer Dr Rudolf Lange: Commander of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Latvia.
- Rainer Steffen as Dr Roland Freisler: State Secretary, Reich Ministry of Justice.
- Gerd Rigauer as SS-Oberführer Dr Karl Eberhard Schöngarth: SD officer assigned to the General Government.
- Anita Mally, as the secretary (Ingeburg Werlemann)
See also edit
- Conspiracy, a 2001 English language film, about the same subject.
- Matti Geschonneck (director): Die Wannseekonferenz (The Wannsee Conference, a 2022 German TV film)
References edit
- ^ Vincent Canby (November 18, 1987). "Film: Holocaust's birth, 'Wannsee Conference'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013.
- ^ Wolfgram, Mark (2011). "Getting History Right": East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 98. ISBN 9781611480061.
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