Die Wannseekonferenz (2022 film) explained

Starring:	Philipp Hochmair Arnd Klawitter Johannes Allmayer
Genre:	Docudrama Historical drama
Narrated:	Matthias Brandt
Cinematography:	Theo Bierkens
Director:	Matti Geschonneck
Producer:	Friederich Oetker Reinhold Elschot
Company:	Constantin Television ZDF
Network:	ZDF
Runtime:	108 minutes
Language:	German
Country:	Germany

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

Reception

Awards and nominations

German Television Award^[3]

• 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^[4]

• 2023: Fiction

Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival

• 2022: Best Film^[5]

Civis Media Prize

• 2022: Entertainment (Civis Video Award)^{[6] [7]}

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards

• 2022: Feature Films (Gold Award)^[8]

Romy

• 2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich)^[9]
• 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot^[10]
• 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz^[10]

Prix Europa

• 2022: Best European TV Film^[11]

Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis

• 2022: Best Film^[12]

Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden

• 2022: 3sat-Publikumspreis (Audience Award)^{[13] [14]}

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

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

Notes and References

1. Peter Kümmel: Unter Verbrechern (Amongst Perpetrators). In: Die Zeit. 20 January 2022. Feuilleton.
2. 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.)
3. Web site: Der Deutsche Fernsehpreis . Preisträger:innen 2022 . 2022-10-24 . Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2022 . de-DE.
4. Web site: Grimme Preis . Preisträger:innen - Grimme-Preis 2023 . 2023-03-21 . Grimme Preis . de-DE.
5. Web site: The conference and the accusation, the big winners of the BCN Film Fest. bcnfilmfest.com. 2022-06-05. en.
6. Web site: Ausgezeichnete Programme 2022. 2022-06-05. de.
7. Web site: CIVIS Medienpreis 2022 für "Schwarze Adler" und "Die Wannseekonferenz". 2022-06-05. de.
8. Web site: Newyorkfestivals.com: Winner's List. 2022-05-01. en.
9. Web site: Beliebtester Schauspieler Film 2022: Philipp Hochmair. 2022-06-23. de.
10. Web site: Elf Auszeichnungen für ORF-(Ko-)Produktionen bei den "ROMY"-Branchenpreisen. ots.at. 2022-09-26. APA.
11. Web site: PRIX EUROPA 2022 Winners . 2022-10-29 . PRIX EUROPA . en-US.
12. Web site: Günter Rohrbach Filmpreis . 2022-11-06 . de-DE.
13. Web site: TeleVisionale Film- und Serienfestival Baden-Baden: ORF-Landkrimi „Vier“ gewinnt Fernsehfilmpreis 2022 . 2022-12-10 . OTS.at . de.
14. Web site: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . TeleVisionale: Bester deutscher Fernsehfilm 2022 ist „Vier“ – 3sat-Publikumspreis für „Die Wannseekonferenz“ . 2022-12-10 . Deutschlandfunk Kultur . de.