Conspiracy
Conspiracy
| 19 May 2001 (USA)
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At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

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Lovesusti

The Worst Film Ever

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Contentar

Best movie of this year hands down!

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WillSushyMedia

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

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Donald Seymour

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Aubrey Holmes

In January 1942, General Heydrich chaired a meeting of Hitler's top men from various Nazi bodies including the Party, the SS etc. The reason was to discuss the inevitably of the Jews and try to bring them to a practical solution that can easily be dealt with. The 'inevitable' being a problem that has come out of control regarding the Jews. They all met on the 20th Janurary 1942 for the Wanasee Conference where the top 15 ranking Nazi's across all departments would discuss the fate of the Jews. All the different attendees all had different ways which they wanted the Jews to be dealt with. The main argument was how the Jews would be treated via ghettos and being transported. This is a chilling dramatisation of the meeting that sealed the fate of millions of Jews. It is merely a board meeting with the focus being on the characters of those involved. The film plays as a normal board meeting although in fact Heydrich is almost comic. One of the most shocking concepts is that no-one in the room believes that the Jews are normal people, although some of them are shocked when Heydrich plans to put them on production lines to kill them. However all of their alternatives ways of getting rid of the Jews are not humane. Tucci and Branagh are both excellent and Colin Firth is the best as Dr Stuckart from the Interior Ministry. All the actors play the characters extremely well. All these Nazi's were normal people and it is clear that not one of them has experienced any form of pain. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves and it's all the more chilling for it. Overall this is an excellent film that benefits from great acting, a great script and great direction. Overall I think that Conspiracy is not entirely historically accurate but mostly is and it is very informative and a good watch.

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liambuchanan

Most people believe they know what evil looks like. It's dirty, rotten, unkempt, and generally unpleasant, located in surroundings that are equally repugnant. However, in the winter of 1942, men of true evil met in pristine, gorgeous surroundings. They eat fabulous food, take in the breath taking surroundings of an old mansion and go about their business leisurely. They are well groomed, seemingly normal people. They were meeting to plan one of the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century the Holocaust. And they did it with a smile and barely a hint of remorse. Conspiracy is a film produced by and originally broadcast on HBO in 2001, but it is the equal, and often the superior, of many theatrical films from that largely lackluster year, a chilling and fascinating look at the "banality of evil," as a commentator once described it. The conference was chaired by General Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh), a high ranking member of the SS, and he was assisted by Colonel Adolph Eichmann (Stanley Tucci), a man infamous for escaping capture by the Allies at the end of World War II. The conference was brief, only two hours, but in that time, these men would decide the fate of six million Jews and other ethnic groups. The main problem with this film is that the acting was just awful i can't even explain how bad the actors were. The next question is whether this was factual and i don't think it was unless the film was lying when they stop the note taker at times and not allowing people to listen to the taps of the conference and destroying them. But I still think that the movie was very good and if it was factual then it is truly disgraceful

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Lee Holland

The film documents a meeting held during WW2, when SS second-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich, assembles a group of Nazis to discuss the final solution of the Jewish question. The Wannsee conference is held in a German country house in snowy Berlin, the Nazis sit around a table for most of the film, occasionally getting for drinks, while enjoying buffet lunch. The debate is whether to execute the Jews or sterilise the Jews, discussing what method is the most efficient/effective option of eliminating the entire Jewish race.There were mant attendees including : Reinhard Heydrich, Otto Hofmann, Heinrich Müller, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Gerhard Klopfer, Adolf Eichmann, Dr. Rudolf Lange, Dr. Georg Leibbrandt, Dr. Alfred Meyer, Dr. Josef Bühler, Dr. Roland Freisler, Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Erich Neumann, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger and Martin Luther. The range of attendees symbolises the various natures of the Nazi culture.During in the deep discussions that are going on round the table, Heydrich proposes methods of how to exterminate the whole race, he proposes sterilisation or execution. Heyrdrich reveals that some of the execution methods are already in place; like the gas vans, this surprises some of the attendees that are round theb table who start to doubt the regime, however the people who are not totally sure on what should happen to the Jews are threatened lightly by Heydrich to make up their minds. Some parts of the film are very comical using language to provoke certain feeling and to interact with the reader.However there is very limited evidence to support what happened at the Wannsee conference therefore some of this information in the film could be unreliable, but it does create a very good sense of personalities and views towards the Jews at the time conveying that it was a one way journey for the Jewish race and that only one thing was going to happen to them.Overall this film, conspiracy, in my opinion is very good in portraying people's views in the Nazi party and that there were a diversity of opinions towards what was going to happen. However it is quite a short film therefore it will not give the viewer a full sense of what the conference was like.

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ryanochiltree

Although this film was very boring as it was based mainly around a conference table I still feel that it was very informative and showed what happened when they was deciding whether or not to kill the Jews. I think that there was a great cast in the film and they all played a very good part in their given roles. when deciding whether or not to kill the Jews, there was many debates about why they were doing it. when they eventually decided that they were going ahead with it, they then had a debate on how they was going to do this and come to a conclusion that they would use gas chambers to do this. this film was very interesting because it was clear on its intentions to show people what happened around that table in Wannssee, Germany in 1942, it also showed us who attended the conference, some of these people were Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Müller, Adolf Eichmann and Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger. the actor Kenneth Branagh played the role of Reinhard Heydrich who was the organiser and main speaker in the conference, he was the one who made the final decision and had the final say. I thought this was good because it showed the level of authority each member of that conference had and clearly showed who was more powerful than others. from this film i found that the Wannsee conference didn't last as long as i thought and the decision was made fairly easily.

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