kristhebass Reviewer Barbieclauss (the clue is in his name) is obviously a Nazi supporter attempting to show there is no evidence to support this film. There is, Eichmann referred to it at his trial and even provided some of the conversations as did other Nazi Officials in memos and speeches.Other reviewers have stated it is boring, ok there is no action, is that what is required to make a good film? I found it very engaging, it doesn't matter if we don't know exactly what was said, the fact that it took place at all is damming enough.Excellent performances from all the cast, although blink and you'll miss Tom Hiddleston in his first appearance on screen.

robertemerald This is engaging and illuminating, a look into the mind of evil. Brilliant cast and none let the show down. Neither did the script. I took a point off because Kenneth Branagh was not a good photo fit for the infamous Reinhard Heydrich.Highly recommended for anyone seeking to understand World War II.

Harry Krajicek This movie sets several things straight. The Wannsee conference is not the place and time where Nazi Germany decided to commit the Holocaust. The Holocaust had been going on for quite some time by January 1942, the time of the conference. Dachau had been in business for years. The SS Einsatzkommandos had already marched into Poland and Russia, gunning down Jewish men, women, and children by the hundreds of thousands. Even the extermination camps had already opened for business. Hermann Göring, at Hitler's direction, had already given the order to proceed with the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.Conspiracy individualises the Nazis at the conference, and shows the different faces of evil. Tellingly, Wilhelm Stuckart is one of the least repulsive characters present, even though he is the architect of the Nuremberg Laws which forced Jews out of the professions and decreed death for any Jew who should marry an Aryan. He, at least, is one of the few who has the courage to stand up to Heydrich, if only for a little while, and resist the SS thugs' insistence on mass murder. His insistence that Jews must be oppressed only according to the strict letter of the law is insane, absurd, but it is a principle, which is more than most of these people have. Klopfer, Martin Bormann's lackey, is the most disgusting man present, even if he can't match Heydrich for pure evil; not even the veneer of civilization is left on him, and he shows sadistic pleasure at the thought of murdering the Jews. Other reactions range from zealously uncritical compliance with orders, to cheerful indifference, to a sort of put-upon resentment that the work of extermination is falling on them.When it comes to flaw-picking time, I can only say that the ending should have shown some of the consequences of the meeting. There should have been at least some reference to the millions of people who were killed by these men. Instead, we are treated only to the fate of the men themselves, although that is disturbing in itself when we see how many of them escaped justice at Nuremberg.

harrysloman-82992 This historical documentary film portrays the Wansee conference on the outskirts of Berlin on a snowy day in winter 1942. The conference is held in a large manor house on the outskirts of a lake just outside Berlin. In this conference the fate of every Jew in Europe was discussed by a number of high ranking Nazis. In some ways this group of men are responsible for every holocaust death in Europe. The film makes you ask yourself a number of question such as how can these people sit here and talk about the fate of these Jews as if they are not humans. The men sit around and have jokes about how will be dealt with be it sterilization or execution. They seem to show no remorse for the actions they are planning to take out. The film gives us an insight into how the Nazis acted and how they could commit such atrocities. Kenneth Branaugh delivers an excellent performance as Heydrich, the head of the table at the meeting. He threatens people with a smile on his face, and shows no remorse while speaking of killing thousands of people. Stanley Tucci is also great as Eichmann, who set up the entire meeting, from the venue to the food to the topics. The way he counts the number of Jews that can be exterminated in a a given period of time is creepy. The cast also includes great turns by Colin Firth, a lawyer and professor who thinks the systematic slaughter of the Jews is bad for Germany's future, and Ian McNiece, who plays a hateful and witty official. Over all the film is interesting and keeps you entertained throughout, however it also leaves a message in your head asking yourself how this conversation could have really happened in real life and how these people could show so little remorse or responsibility for these actions which affected the world forever.