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Conspiracy
Directed by Frank Pierson
Produced by Nick Gillot
Frank Pierson
Written by Loring Mandel
Starring Kenneth Branagh,
Stanley Tucci,
Colin Firth,
David Threlfall,
Ben Daniels
Distributed by BBC / HBO
Release date(s) 2001
Running time 96 min. Frank R Pierson (born 12 May 1925) is an American Screenwriter and Film director. Loring Mandel (born in Chicago Illinois May 5, 1928) is an American playwright and screenwriter whose notable works include the TV movie Conspiracy Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is an Emmy Award -winning Academy Award -nominated Northern Irish Actor Stanley Tucci Jr (born 11 November 1960) is an American Golden Globe - and Emmy Award -winning Screen Actors Guild - and Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September, 1960) is an English film television and stage Actor. David Threlfall (born 12 October 1953, Manchester) is an English Actor and director best known for his role as Frank Ben Daniels (born 10 June 1964 is a British actor A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA he has taken on roles in numerous productions Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
Language English
Budget Not known
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Conspiracy is a BBC / HBO television film which dramatizes the Wannsee Conference of 1942. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Wannsee Conference was a Meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The film delves into the psychology of German officials involved in the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question' during World War II. The Final Solution ( Die Endlösung) was Nazi Germany 's plan and execution of its systematic Genocide against European Jewry during World World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

The movie, written by Loring Mandel starred an ensemble cast including Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich, Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann, and Colin Firth as Wilhelm Stuckart. Loring Mandel (born in Chicago Illinois May 5, 1928) is an American playwright and screenwriter whose notable works include the TV movie Conspiracy Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is an Emmy Award -winning Academy Award -nominated Northern Irish Actor Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( 7 March 1904 &ndash 4 June 1942) was an SS - Obergruppenführer, chief Stanley Tucci Jr (born 11 November 1960) is an American Golden Globe - and Emmy Award -winning Screen Actors Guild - and Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September, 1960) is an English film television and stage Actor. Dr Wilhelm Stuckart ( November 16, 1902 &ndash November 15, 1953) was a Nazi Party Lawyer and official a state secretary

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Plot

A secret meeting is held in order to determine the method by which the German government is to execute Adolf Hitler's policy — that the German sphere of influence should be free of Jews, including those in the occupied terrorities of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia and France. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia ( Eesti or Eesti Vabariik) is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region Czechoslovakia may also refer to what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. As the film opens, various officials from different German agencies arrive and mingle at a beautiful manor house in Wannsee, where Colonel Adolf Eichmann, SS Officer for Jewish Affairs, has meticulously planned the meeting. The Wannsee is both a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany, and a linked pair of Lakes adjoining The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Among those present:

It is quickly established by those present that there is a significant "Jewish problem", in that the Jews of Europe cannot be efficiently contained, nor can they be forced onto other countries. Kritzinger interrupts at several points to opine that the meeting is pointless, given that the Jewish Question had previously been settled, but Heydrich promises to revisit his concerns. The Jewish question was an issue for discussions and debate particularly in western and Central Europe, during the French Revolution and into the A discussion follows of the possibilities of sterilization, and of the exemptions for mixed race Jews who have one or more non-Jewish grandparents. Sterilization (also spelled sterilisation) is a surgical technique leaving a male or female unable to reproduce. The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestries come from different races. At this point, Stuckart loses his temper and insists that a sturdy legal framework is paramount, and that ad hoc application of standards will lead to administrative chaos. He also chides Klopfer for his simplistic portrayal of Jews as evil sub-humans, simultaneously painting his own picture of Jews as clever, manipulative and untrustworthy. Although he is an anti-semite, he recognizes that Jews are human but says that they can never be assimilated into the German race. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility He believes that even a dictatorship is bound by law, and that the Jews ought to be sterilized en masse rather than killed. A dictator is an Authoritarian ruler (eg Absolutist or autocratic) who assumes sole and absolute power without hereditary ascension such as an Absolute

Heydrich calls a break in the proceedings, and takes Stuckart aside to warn him about the consequences of his stubbornness, implying that others in the SS will take an unwanted interest in his actions. When the meeting reconvenes, Heydrich steers the discussion in the direction of wholesale elimination using gas chambers. A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing consisting of a sealed chamber into which a Poisonous or Asphyxiant gas is introduced This causes consternation among many of the attendees, notably Kritzinger, who objects that Hitler had given him personal guarantees that extermination of the Jews was not being considered, and representatives of the General Government administration, who are shocked to discover that the SS have been building camps and making preparations for the "Final Solution" under their noses and in secret. The General Government (Generalgouvernement refers to a part of the territories of Poland (and Ostrava Czechoslovakia under German Military occupation Extermination camps were two types of facilities that Nazi Germany built during World War II for the systematic killing of millions of people in what has become

By this time it has become clear to everyone at the meeting that they have been called together not to discuss the problem but to be given orders by the SS, who are intent on wresting control of the operation from other agencies such as the Interior Ministry and the Reich Chancellery. The meeting breaks again as one of the officials is suddenly taken ill, supposedly due to a cigar.

This time it is Kritzinger's turn to be taken aside and intimidated by Heydrich, who warns that Kritzinger is influential but not invulnerable. Heydrich tells Kritzinger that he wants not only consent but active support, and Kritzinger realizes that any hopes he had of assuring livable conditions for the Jewish population are unrealistic. In return, he tells Heydrich a cautionary tale about a man consumed by hatred for his father, so much so that he is sorry to see his father die, for his life seems empty without the antipathy that drove him.

Heydrich then recalls and concludes the meeting, giving clear directives that the SS are to be obeyed in all matters relating to the elimination of the Jews. He also asks for explicit assent and support from each official, one by one. After giving careful instructions on the secrecy of the minutes and notes of the meeting, they are adjourned and begin to depart.

As the servants at the manor tidy away the remains of the meeting, and the officials depart, a brief account of the fate of each one is given.

Cast

The cast of the 15 participants of the conference were as follows:

For more details on the real-life participants, see the Wannsee Conference article. The Wannsee Conference was a Meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on

See also

External links

The is an index of all the films that deal with the Holocaust period in Europe approximately 1938-1945 This is an incomplete list of Conspiracy thriller films. See also Conspiracy thriller The Wannsee Conference (Die Wannseekonferenz is a 1984 German TV movie treating the events of the Wannsee Conference.
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