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
- 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
- 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
- 2022: Best Directing Fiction – Matti Geschonneck
- 2023: Fiction
- 2022: Best Film
- 2022: Entertainment
- 2022: Feature Films
- 2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair
- 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot
- 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz
- 2022: Best European TV Film
- 2022: Best Film
- 2022: ''3sat-Publikumspreis''