Die Wannseekonferenz (2022 film)

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.

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

Awards and nominations

German Television Award

• 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)

Grimme Award

• 2023: Fiction

Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival

• 2022: Best Film

Civis Media Prize

• 2022: Entertainment (Civis Video Award)

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards

• 2022: Feature Films (Gold Award)

Romy

• 2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich)
• 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot
• 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz

Prix Europa

• 2022: Best European TV Film

Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis

• 2022: Best Film

Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden

• 2022: 3sat-Publikumspreis (Audience Award)

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

External links

• Die Wannseekonferenz Press release in the Press portal of the ZDF
• Die Wannseekonferenz (2022, en The Wannsee Conference)
• Catalogue, exhibition - The Meeting at Wannsee and the Murder of the European Jews