Two films about The Wannsee Conference

Conspiracy R 2001 ‧ War/Drama ‧ 1h 36m

In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. SS Gen. Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) and his associate, Lt. Eichmann (Stanley Tucci) call the meeting to discuss the "evacuation" of Germany's Jews and other undesirables, a code word for their extermination in concentration camps. To begin this Final Solution, they must change the mind of a small group of men opposed to the idea, led by Chancellor Kritzinger (David Threlfall).

There is a '84 film shot in Germany titled "The Wannsee Conference."
Never released on physical media. Has English subtitles. Can be seen on YouTube. Worth a watch not only for the historical significance but to compare with Conspiracy.

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val70 · 56-60

I found the German movie much more believable. Even the people who questioned it were beter portrayed. The short story about a son and his father was in that one also better staged.

JSul3 · 70-79

@val70 It also has the female secretary taking the minutes.

In Conspiracy, there's only a male stenographer. There was no female taking notes. This was explained by the director because based on Eichmann's testimony during his trial, he said that there was only a male stenographer.
Now, according to many sources,
assisting Adolf Eichmann with note-taking was Ingeburg Werlemann (later Ingeburg Wagner). She was his secretary.
In testimony she stated that her attempts at taking shorthand notes was extremely difficult because they kept talking over each other.

There's a much later German film that's on YouTube but it doesn't have English subtitles.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

I think I've seen the first one you mentioned, but it would have been when it first came out. I've slept since then, so forgotten any details. I'll re-watch and look out for the other one (with the subtitles). I'm always interested in how a country slides into an abominable ideology, while maintaining the notion of being democratic.

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