Main Cast: Robert Artzorn, Friedrich Georg Beckhaus, Gerd Bockmann, Jochen Busse, Hans W. Bussinger
Release Year: 1984
Country: AT/WG
Run Time: 87 minutes
Plot
When Nazi "exterminator" Adolph Eichmann was tried for war crimes in 1961, more than one observer, taking into consideration Eichmann's "normal" veneer, commented upon "the banality of evil." Much the same can be said of the quietly chilling docudrama The Wannsee Conference. This re-creation of a January, 1942 meeting of several Nazi officials is based on the actual minutes of the conference. In calm, measured tones, the various Nazi higher-ups discuss the extermination of Europe's Jewish population. The film is shot in "real time": it runs 87 minutes, precisely the same amount of time consumed by the actual event. Don't let anyone ever tell you that a film consisting of an hour and a half of conversation is dull: The Wannsee Conference is one of the most disturbing pictures ever committed to celluloid. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Robert Artzorn - Hofmann
Friedrich Georg Beckhaus - Muller
Gerd Bockmann - Adolf Eichmann
Jochen Busse - Leibrandt
Hans W. Bussinger - Luther
Harald Dieti - Meyer, Gauleiter for the Occupied Eastern T; Peter Fitz - Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Interior Minister; Reinhard Glemnitz - Buhler; Dieter Groest - Neumann; Martin Lüttge - Dr. Rudolf Lange, Commander of the Gestapo; Anita Secretary Mally - Secretary; Dietrich Mattausch - Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police; Gerd Rigauer - Schongarth; Franz Rudnick - Kritzinger, Reich Chancellery Representative; Rainer Steffen - Friesler, Justice Minister; Gunter Spoerrie
Credit
Robert Hofer-Ach - Art Director, Barbara Siebner - Art Director, Diemut Remy - Costume Designer, Heinz Schirk - Director, Ursula Mollinger - Editor, Horst Schier - Cinematographer, Manfred Korytowski - Producer, Paul Mommertz - Screenwriter
