You know you have gone too far when the guy who literally wrote the Nuremberg laws think you are being too harsh on Jews.
@Sig509
7 ай бұрын
No "too harsh" but "messy" in the legal sense, arbitraty in recognizing who to kill, and also wanting to "waste" the German part for the mixed. Dude is evil AF, but his method is organised and with a respect to the "law".
@Shootskas
7 ай бұрын
He doesn't think they're being too harsh, he thinks it in opposition to the legal code of Germany.
@plainlake
4 ай бұрын
@@Sig509 Definitition of lawful evil?
@daveware4117
4 ай бұрын
Id say, history has proven him right
@blacklighthologram5339
4 ай бұрын
That is not the point of the scene. He doesn't think the others in room are too brutal but that they're too noisy, if you start punishing Germans by law other Germans will become less supportive of the party, this guy hates the Jews more than the fat one cause he knows that he should fear them because of the position the Nazis put them in, justified rage is more often than not the death of dictators.
@aaronmcfadden3986
3 жыл бұрын
Judge Dredd: I am the law! Dr. Stuckart: I wrote that law!!!
@joshuavanthoff
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha!
@bidhancb
4 жыл бұрын
The performance is so good that you actually believe the conversation was in English. Sir Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth were absolute beasts in this one
@mightymac63
2 жыл бұрын
And an unknown Brendan Coyle (from Downton Abbey) playing Heinrich Mueller..the head of the Gestapo. He never was prosecuted after the war..he died when the Russians surrounded Berlin
@billedwards6985
2 жыл бұрын
Pigs don't know how to hate
@bentonjennings
Жыл бұрын
And Stanley Tucci as Eichman. He has the last scene in the film and what he says is the final cold nail in this bone chilling script.
@themargrave
Жыл бұрын
Totally - and Tucci was amazing as well.
@themargrave
Жыл бұрын
@@bentonjennings exactly, well said.
@thomasvertommen9526
7 ай бұрын
It's weird how Firth is playing a man who keeps a worldview, that is at the very least as evil as anyone else's in the room. Yet he seems to be the voice of (dangerous) reason. We're applauding the lesser of two evils, even if we'd rather not have to applaud any of them. This was the reality for a solid portion of the German populace. Sublime performance.
@LordUnas
4 ай бұрын
Dr. Stuckart is a vicious anti-semite, but is seemingly a better man than most in the room simply because he cannot stomach mass murder. He is nevertheless in favour of the annihilation of the Jews through sterilization. This hypocrisy, of which Dr. Kritzinger is also guilty, is actually called out by Heydrich at one point, when he confronts Kritzinger about the latter’s willingness to impoverish, enslave, deport, sterilize, and isolate the Jews, so long as they are not outright murdered. Kritzinger is also the only attendee to express remorse after the war for their role in the holocaust. I think it was a brilliant choice to cast Colin Firth as Dr. Stuckart because he is naturally well-spoken, handsome, and somewhat dashing. We are pre-disposed to like Colin Firth for these reasons, so that we don’t notice at first that he is just as vile an anti-semite, but a different type of anti-semite, one who accuses the Jews of being evil geniuses bent on ruling the world. Similarly, the more youthful, and even more dashing and handsome, Ben Daniels plays a bureaucrat whom we sympathize with merely because he considers it dishonourable to shoot women and children by the thousands. He is so handsome and likeable, in fact, that we barely notice that he doesn’t give a damn about whether or not the Jews are exterminated, so long as he doesn’t have to deal with them anymore. He opposes Heydrich’s and Eichmann’s plan which sort of makes him the good guy by default, but really he is just upset that his office wasn’t consulted as part of the planning, because he feels that the Jews under his administrative authority should go to the front of the line. They’re all assholes, but each is an asshole in their individual way. It’s fascinating.
@fredericmartin7352
4 ай бұрын
It's not a difference in antisemitism (as you mention, he's similarly evil in that regard), but rather he represents a less fascist worldview. He represents a worldview where laws are above any given man - where we are all bound by laws whether those laws are evil or not. The more fascist characters believe laws are a fig leaf, something useful to placate the masses, but ultimately something to enable them and never bind them. They are just as accepting of writing a new law to justify their crimes as they are ignoring the law entirely to commit them regardless, whatever is easier. We feel compelled to root for Firth/Dr. Stuckart and his character because we'd like to believe in a lawful society that stops the government from doing horrifying things. But in his own way he's a cautionary tale. Just because someone is less fascist and believes in a society of laws, doesn't make them a good person. Persecution, particularly antisemitic persecution, has happened in myriad societies over thousands of years - most of them were not fascist. You're right, it's a brilliant character/writing/performance. He keeps fighting for his worldview and he keeps growing more desperate because it feels like what he's saying just doesn't compute to the more fascist members of the meeting. He believes in a society of laws where the law creates a racial order with Jews at the bottom and Aryans at the top. Kenneth Branagh playing Heydrich is instituting a post-legal society, where laws matter not at all as long as the antisemitic, kleptocratic state can continue. He can't convince them of the legal issues with what they're doing for the simple fact that they don't believe in law. Gut wrenching how we are made to sympathize with a man responsible for so much evil simply because he has other ideas we agree with, while he sits across from a man of totalizing evil. A chilling film.
@lessacto
7 жыл бұрын
Subject matter aside, Firth's performance during this part is excellent.
@ScotsDestroyer
6 жыл бұрын
he is always excellent, i always thought he would be a great obi wan kenobi.
@inmate24601
4 жыл бұрын
This was a tour de force for the whole cast, in my opinion. Just bone chilling. Branagh, Firth and Tucci were just incredible.
@kbanghart
4 жыл бұрын
@@inmate24601 yep a fantastic movie. I think it should be required viewing if not in high school, in college.
@kbanghart
4 жыл бұрын
@@danthony1715 God bless your professor! Lol. Did you enjoy it? I mean, you know what I mean, The acting and writing, not the extermination of people:) one thing I miss from the full movie, the little sidebar conversations that took place when they were not seated at the table. I really need to see the whole thing again.
@kbanghart
4 жыл бұрын
@@danthony1715 that's great to hear
@ComandoPadentro
7 жыл бұрын
- I'll remember you... - You should, I'm very well known. Great moment!
@stayingwithit8632
4 жыл бұрын
It was a threat
@stuartjenkins3039
4 жыл бұрын
THE TETRACH OF JERUSALEM VISITS US THIS DAY! MOCKERY OF THE JEWS AND THEIR SINGLE GOD SHOULD BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM!
@theonlyonestanding6832
4 жыл бұрын
What did that fat man mean I remember you?
@stayingwithit8632
4 жыл бұрын
@@theonlyonestanding6832 he's obviously got connections in the S.S and he's implying that he can have him killed if he doesn't toe the line. That's what I got from it.
@user-si3gu8pm6j
4 жыл бұрын
The lawyer is (after all is said and done) a moron who thinks he can (needs to) legalize bloody, incomprehensible, ghastly murder - to paraphrase - believe people when they tell you who they are the first time - what does he think his role is? Thomas Aquinas making a sort of ‘Just War case for the goddamn Holocaust’? Him and the group he associates with is sick and depraved not f***ing ‘laudable’ in the slightest - this film should make anyone’s skin crawl
@kbanghart
4 жыл бұрын
"from your uniform I infer that you're shallow, ignorant and naive" That line is so spot on
@Brickcellent
3 жыл бұрын
He's referring to him being a brownshirt (SA), a group that were seen as hooligans compared to established and educated soldiers such as the SS. He's not ridiculing him for being a Nazi.
@ackchyually9461
3 жыл бұрын
@@Brickcellent it's NSDAP, not a SA uniform
@Rutherford_Inchworm_III
3 жыл бұрын
You're projecting. Also forgetting that every man in the room is a trusted Nazi functionary.
@whynotphil
3 жыл бұрын
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III They all were Nazi functionaries, but all from different government agencies. Some were SS, some were SD, some were NSdAP, some were Gestapo and some were bureaucrats. The true meaning of the conference was not to conclude on the "Jewish Question", but rather to consolidate all state power under the SS.
@F40PH-2CAT
2 жыл бұрын
Sadly Klopfer would be the last surviving attendee of this meeting, dying in 1987. He managed to avoid being charged with war crimes and even got his law license back.
@user-gv4bf4zx2s
7 жыл бұрын
Firth and Branagh are absolute beasts of actors, best of the best.
@abbeymclane6985
6 жыл бұрын
Mudder Fukker yeah, I bet Colin and Kenneth are old buddies
@bbc5802
6 жыл бұрын
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@JohnnylMr
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed, they are. The entire cast is sublime.
@Fedaykin24
5 жыл бұрын
@@JohnnylMr indeed sublime especially Branagh and Firth. I like in this moment the subversion of expectation, Firth is usually cast as a very decent man and for a moment you think he is having some kind of Oscar Schindler moment and he is somehow the one sane man in the room then he starts talking about the 'The cunning Evil of the Jew (sic)', sterilisation and not wishing Germans to be polluted and you realise he is just as bad as the rest of them. He has utterly no problem with exterminating a people just the method. Branagh caps the scene with his achingly polite suggestion that they take a short break as if they had just had a minor quibble over administrative issues.
@brunostiglitz7535
5 жыл бұрын
Mudder Fukker branagh doesn’t look like heydrich
@GlamorousTitanic21
2 жыл бұрын
I can never forget the first time I watched ‘Conspiracy’ and I’ve got to say, despite that fact that it has no shooting or battle scenes, it is one of the most bone-chilling films ever, for the simple reason that you know how it historically ends, and there’s nothing to distract from the horrifying implications that followed the events portrayed. It both terrifies and fascinates me that those who attended the Wannsee Conference discussed its consequences while joking, drinking, and trying to one-up each other to gain more power and influence, all while discussing the genocide of an entire people and culture. It does a great job of showing that even those who committed some of the worst atrocities in history still could view it as something to be discussed and implemented in a dignified and calm way. It really speaks to the complete takeover of rationality and reality within the Third Reich; the idea that these men could be cultured while espousing the most hideous and racist ideas. Overall, an incredible film that I think everyone should watch at least once. It certainly makes you think.
@patternrecon5271
2 жыл бұрын
Kieth Woods: "russian" oligarchs. Igor Kolomoisky. Great russian famine, Holodomor, Famine in Khazakhstan, Lazar Kaganovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Aron Solts, Filipp Goloshchyokin, Yakov Yurovsky, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel. Ereget Raschi Erod.22 30 Baba Mezia 114b Libbre David 37 Sabba Mecia 114,6. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D. Tosefta. Aboda 8, 5, Schulchan Aruch, Jore Dia
@AbecedariusRex
Жыл бұрын
and I am often plagued with the chilling fear that it is happening again
@jackthomas6952
Жыл бұрын
@@AbecedariusRex Other parts of the world it’s never stopped but it’s never been this well thought out and executed in a machine like fashion.
@AmanShinMossadian5_6
Жыл бұрын
@@AbecedariusRexNEVERAGAIN WE vow to this, ABOVE ALL The ELOHYIM of Yashar’el Will not allow it! His Covenant with Father Avraham, ALWAYS will be until….
@archravenineteenseventeen
8 ай бұрын
@@AbecedariusRexeast turkeministan
@ianrhodes6928
6 жыл бұрын
This film has some absolute powerhouse performances. Top notch thespianism.
@simonpearn479
4 жыл бұрын
Has Kenny Branagh ever been better than this?
@ZoolGatekeeper
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry to spoil the party... Kenneth Branagh is channeling some English plays..NOT Heydrich… The real Reinhard Heydrich would have sounded more like a penguin in labour.. And Eichmann, come on, he was nothing, just a civil servant...
@GK1976A
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. They are all at the top of their game in this docudrama.
@themargrave
Жыл бұрын
@@simonpearn479 He was pretty awesome in Henry V, but this is a much more brilliant movie. (And I absolutely adore Henry V)
@themargrave
Жыл бұрын
@@ZoolGatekeeper I disagree. Eichmann was a conniving simp, just like Tucci played him. Heydrich was an evil man, and completely capable of this cool and sophisticated manipulation. Hydrich in this film knows just which button to push and when to push it to get what he wants - but he never, ever is not in control.
@XKT035
6 жыл бұрын
No wonder Colin Firth didn't want to marry Bridget Jones. All that paperwork involved....
@emjackson2289
4 жыл бұрын
Feb 4 1942 - calories 4320, cigs 30, units 30 . . . . Just heard from Wilhelm that we may have to go to Krakow.
@internetperiodista
4 жыл бұрын
@@emjackson2289 LOL !!!!!
@kingpin6989
5 жыл бұрын
I watched this movie the other day, it's chilling how casual they are with the horrors they're discussing.
@gastonbell108
4 жыл бұрын
That's the point. The genocide of millions of Jews was more of a real, physical reality to these Nazis than anything we can fathom today. Millions of corpses means millions of problems. The bizarre and horrible part was that it was merely a physical reality: human objects to be disposed of. Timetables to be met, money to change hands, arrangements to be made, all colossally expensive and elaborate. It's the tangible proof of Eichmann's later argument that he was "merely following orders". He was! And yet the orders were followed with perfectly inhuman bureaucratic gusto, like they were actually fighting a war against the Jews.
@freedomisslavery6840
3 жыл бұрын
It's a film, not real life.
@HCAVTROOPER
3 жыл бұрын
@@freedomisslavery6840 i really hope youre fucking joking
@ForgottenHonor0
3 жыл бұрын
People ask me why I don't watch "horror" films. Thats because the "monsters" of those movies don't scare me as much as actual living monsters that wear human skin from the moment they're born.
@gastonbell108
3 жыл бұрын
@@ForgottenHonor0 Poetic, but the entire point of the Third Reich wasn't that it was composed of men who were "living monsters"'. That's a thought terminating cliche and a myth. Monsters are incapable of making good choices, men aren't. They were men, and they made the choice as men to commit genocide. The question is WHY these bureaucrats did it, what was their logic that allowed them to contemplate such an inhuman act.
@anshuldwivedi1919
5 жыл бұрын
This movie used to be on YT. I remember watching it some time in 2012 and have been looking for it since. One of the classics for me
@keitht24
3 жыл бұрын
It's on HBO max.
@jimcat68
Жыл бұрын
You can watch it on YT now but you have to pay for it.
@johnking5174
5 жыл бұрын
1:20 - A great reaction shot of Branagh here as Heydrich. Heydrich had to play it carefully with Stuckart, as Stuckart was a close friend and ally of Hermann Goring, and so he knew he was protected and could not be subject to direct threat.
@johnking5174
4 жыл бұрын
@DevilTrigger Stuckart was not a Jew lover, but more of an administration bureaucrat lover, and had a bit of arrogance over some of his laws being dumped by Heydrich.
@inmate24601
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 Far from being a Jew lover, he was an absolutely inveterate Jew hater. A brilliant man, somehow so warped as to genuinely believe that history "would applaud" them for eliminating the Jews, provided it was done within a legal framework and not so crassly as mass execution. Couldn't help but find it funny, however, that one of his objections to the Jewish character is that they were "self absorbed." So says a card-carrying member of the Master Race.
@starrynight8599
4 жыл бұрын
Himmler was more powerful than Goring at this point in time.
@johnking5174
4 жыл бұрын
@@starrynight8599 Goring was still a force to be weary of. Hitler made sure that Goring was his legal successor if he should die. He only rescinded that in 1945.
@starrynight8599
4 жыл бұрын
John King him being designated successor was nominal only. Himmler and Heydrich could steamroll him by 1942, as they did with his ally Hans Frank.
@leemcdaid6537
5 жыл бұрын
The finest cast ever assembled in a movie
@johnbertrand7185
5 жыл бұрын
Saw this move when it premiered on HBO in 2001. Absolutely chilling. The acting is outstanding in the fact that all the actors play their parts with a cool detachment about the monstrous act they are about to commit. It makes what happens next that much more evil in the fact that it was simply a matter of public policy to them and not the destruction of an entire people.
@gastonbell108
4 жыл бұрын
Of course they play their parts coolly. This was merely a business meeting among men who'd already determined they'd do anything Hitler told them. That was determined years prior. The bureaucratic BS that followed is the creepy part.
@itdoesntmatter2941
3 жыл бұрын
Acting is acting. It's a really easy thing to do. Especially when you know that it is all pretend.
@bentonjennings
Жыл бұрын
@@itdoesntmatter2941- Says one who I'll wager has never been on stage or in front of the camera.
@themargrave
Жыл бұрын
@@bentonjennings lol yep
@kbanghart
Жыл бұрын
@@bentonjennings well, one of the best there is, Tom Hanks DID say it's pretty easy. Or maybe that was Clint eastwood, can't recall now. It just comes naturally to some people, others have to work hard at it like I guess any other profession.
@Blueboy0316
7 жыл бұрын
man king George VI lost his way a little bit...
@CodingMazaa
5 жыл бұрын
At least he managed without a stammer or a speech therapist.
@crimony3054
5 жыл бұрын
But he was clear in voice and didn't stammer at all!
@WarReport.
5 жыл бұрын
Lol
@hanzz9083
5 жыл бұрын
He was with hitler and his stammer gone?
@yahulwagoni4571
5 жыл бұрын
Fear therapy.
@e.l.norton
5 жыл бұрын
Nobody knows what the personalities of these men truly were like, but these interpretations are incredible.
@inmate24601
4 жыл бұрын
There's an abundance of evidence as to the personalities of several of these characters. I agree with you 100% the performances were superb.
@florinivan6907
2 жыл бұрын
There are some controversies regarding the personalities of some. Not Heydrich obviously but others do have unanswered questions.
@nomerompanlaspelotas5812
Жыл бұрын
the scripts of this movie was made from a transcript that survived the war, so basically 90% or so of the things you hear in the movie was said in real life in the meeting, so i guess they adapted the tone personality to the script.
@rohunsaigal2576
Жыл бұрын
@@nomerompanlaspelotas5812we don’t know the tone though. For example Stuckart raised concerns over the administrative consequences and suggested sterilization as easier. We don’t know how long this conversation was or whether it was contentious like portrayed here or a more discussion based debate/conversation
@nomerompanlaspelotas5812
Жыл бұрын
@@rohunsaigal2576 jajaja my friend that was a dictatorship, you don't follow orders you become an enemy of the state, and you are sent immediately to a concentration camp, you can see just from the script it was a very tense argument, specially the exchange between Klopfer and Stuckart "I will remember you" "You should i'm very well known" "Pigs don't know how to hate" etc, or when they tell him "Maybe the judge has some sympathy for the jews" the only weapon he had was the legal one, Stuckart realized they were talking about the worst crime in human history, so he tried to stop it, no doubt in my mind.
@martincornish3179
5 жыл бұрын
Kenneth branagh was absolutely epic in this role in my opinion as was Colin firth
@americanexploring7440
Жыл бұрын
Kenneth Branagh was the movie. No words to describe the brilliant performance.
@crimony3054
5 жыл бұрын
He didn't stammer at all during that speech.
@jmitterii2
3 жыл бұрын
When feeling fascist and particularly genocidal, the stammer vanishes... quite fascinating really. Just don't forget, pigs don't know how to hate. Quote of the quotes.
@StonyRC
5 жыл бұрын
No matter how true or how accurate the dialogue might relate to what actually happened at this meeting, it is a truly chilling movie to watch and shows how twisted a learned and cultured society can become within one generation! It serves as a warning to beware the beast in us ALL.
@wrestlingbear1188
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Wilhelm Stuckart was a brilliant judge and legal scholar. You can't deny he made a good, strong, valid argument about racial purity.
@judehutchinson8355
Жыл бұрын
@@wrestlingbear1188 I can and will deny
@Tarnatos14
6 ай бұрын
@@wrestlingbear1188 There is nothing as racial purity, every european has different DNA from different ethnics, there is no human on earth who has something as 'a pure' "race" (what ever that should mean, what is not inherent of other subjects like: dna, cultrue, religion, language, place of birth, phaenotype etc)
@4vndd
5 жыл бұрын
This is what true acting is about...each character lives their roles....one gets so immersed... that one feels that this is actually happening right in front of us...and not on a screen...wow ...words fail me..
@bluesboy54321
5 жыл бұрын
Wow.. A “made for TV” film but by a country mile the best thing that Firth has ever done.
@Shadowman4710
5 жыл бұрын
"It's not TV...It's HBO!" :)
@MrSandalwood
4 жыл бұрын
This should be shown in every school in the world... a superb peace of film and so well written
@ByWayOfDeception
3 жыл бұрын
it should be shown to teenagers for sure
@drened8502
Жыл бұрын
im showing this to my modern history class tomorrow
@seanyurt334
7 жыл бұрын
one of my all time favourite films
@alexjeffries5276
4 жыл бұрын
Never thought I would sit through an actual film where the entire plot is a single fucked up business meeting, essentially. Gripping film
@TheDMB411987
3 жыл бұрын
The most sobering part of this scene and this movie, is despite Colin Firths passionate speech that while opposing ignorant and primitive generalizations of Jews, is still taking the side of sterilization and a gross restriction of their rights while perpetuating the preservation of the master German race. The best ally these oppressed people have in that room still views them as a problem and not a people entitled to the most basic of rights.
@johnking5174
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Nazi Germany. That was how the Nazis indoctrinated their armies and population.
@internetstrangerstrangerofweb
Жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same way. Brilliant and stirring performance.
@marccru
8 ай бұрын
Yeah, nobody at this meeting was saving any Jews by an means.
@vyperlube
6 ай бұрын
Colin Firth is easily the best bit of this generally excellent film.
@jeffdalrymple1634
2 жыл бұрын
Branagh plays the villain with such confidence and arrogance. Brilliant. Drs. Stuckart and Kritzinger were the only intellectuals present at the conference. Too bad Threlfall didn't play more roles. His performance was top shelf quality.
@shoutinghorse
2 жыл бұрын
The acting in this movie is astounding. Every single one is a master of his profession.
@rogerkincaid931
5 жыл бұрын
Firth really stole the scene here.
@kbanghart
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah you have to turn it up, with people like Tucci and Branagh in the room.
@emmanueldidier321
2 жыл бұрын
I asked Branagh how he perceived Heydrich. He was kind enough to answer that he saw Heydrich as devoid of emotions. In other words, a psychopath.
@HuckleBearerTheRhymeSlinger
3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most frightening movies I’ve ever seen with acting that surpasses none. I truely think I’m traumatised and haven’t fully recovered and all that without one killing scene.
@jackoates6418
Жыл бұрын
Lmao, absolutely brainwashed
@Krobra91
7 ай бұрын
its a reminder that death, blood and guts are not the most horrifying for humanity to witness, but the casualness in which we sometimes talk without empathy, understanding and sympathy the casualness of it all is just a reminder that this can happen even today. Hell even some of the languages, wording , phrases can still be applied to whats happening everywhere around the world today
@Broncort1
4 жыл бұрын
For a movie that hardly leaves one room throughout, is riveting!
@kbanghart
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, in fact your comment just made me think of 12 angry men, another excellent one room movie!
@caligulapontifex5759
3 жыл бұрын
Frost Nixon is another one.
@alexburford1637
5 жыл бұрын
The Wanssee Conference....Real Life Horror that Stephen King could NEVER create in his Imagination.
@BobaDavis
4 жыл бұрын
Plenty of people have written in this way, even King. What makes this different is that it actually happened.
@ForgottenHonor0
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agree. This movie is a hundred more terrifying than any monster movie out there.
@itdoesntmatter2941
3 жыл бұрын
@@BobaDavis Actually happened? Mhm... okay then.
@some______guy
3 жыл бұрын
I think it's a glorious fact that this meeting was actually remembered. It's very interesting.
@asdf42042
5 жыл бұрын
I couldn't believe I never saw this movie, never heard of it even. But when I saw it, I was amazed, and shocked. First of all because of how casually the dudes around the table discussed one of the largest genocides to have taken place in Europe, but also how well the actors did their job. I've seen excerpts of the other Wannsee conference movie which is in German but this English movie definately nails it when it comes to performance.
@AndyP998
2 жыл бұрын
Production values are higher indeed and some familiar good actors in this. BUT, german version is equally and if not even more chilling and some personalities are maybe closer to real than on this. Actors are great on it too. I like both
@MarsFKA
5 жыл бұрын
"They are arrogant and self-obsessed!" Pretty well exactly what could be said of everyone around that table. I never saw this horror movie and, despite the stellar cast, I could not bear to watch it. Arrogant, self-obsessed men, of high intelligence, meeting to plan state sponsored genocide. This film may be based on reality, but the reality of what those men planned is still with us today.
@ponddweller525
5 жыл бұрын
MarsFKA If you ever visit Berlin go to Wannsee and see the Konferenze Haus it’s very interesting, There is loads of stuff to see. In the actual conference room they have the pictures of the party members with a short history. Very disturbing!
@MarsFKA
5 жыл бұрын
@@ponddweller525 Thank you for the information, but it is very unlikely that I will ever visit Berlin.
@MarsFKA
5 жыл бұрын
@@ryanashbaugh4974 We might, by your limited, racist, standards, "know nothing", but we know intolerance and hate when we see it.
@ponddweller525
5 жыл бұрын
Ryan Ashbaugh Whatever! And I suppose Heydrich lived until he was 84yrs old and Gabcik and Kubis are non existent persons. 🙄
@MarsFKA
5 жыл бұрын
@@ponddweller525 Ashbaugh's responses show his true colours and nothing will change his hatred and bigotry, or his contempt for everyone who doesn't subscribe to the dirty little world that he lives in. Let him have the last word and we can be done with him.
@ackbarfan5556
5 жыл бұрын
Give credit, all these guys do a great job at portraying complete monsters, especially Firth, Branagh and Tucci.
@aleisterbroley900
5 жыл бұрын
"complete monsters" lol okay
@gx2music
5 жыл бұрын
Well that’s the whole point. If you had a time machine and you met Heydrich in real life , he would have been a very charming guy. The Nazis weren’t Wolfenstein monsters - they were Branagh Heydrich’s. How else do you think over 100 million people supported Hitler in WW2?
@ponddweller525
5 жыл бұрын
Dragon Energy Agreed, Heydrich was a family man, was an accomplished violin player, (his father was a musician too putting together Reinhard’s crime.) Reinhard also was a very good fencer. They say his next appointment would have been Paris. But Gabcik and Kubis got him first
@victorbrunswick
5 жыл бұрын
@@gx2music And Eichmann was a very bland, almost milquetoast personality that at his trial the prosecutors actually wanted to make him wear an SS uniform!
@CountCristo729
4 жыл бұрын
the thing is, they were not all "monsters" and that is what makes what happen all the more terrifying. They were well educated individuals for the most part who discussed the death of millions while eating and drinking. The scary part is that we could easily become them in the right circumstances. We are all both good and evil. Fortunately, socialization has suppressed our evil side over millions of years. However, the evil can come out quite easily.
@kevinscott9242
Жыл бұрын
My arm hairs raise & tingle everytime I hear that brilliant Colin Firth speech!
@xcalabur18
2 жыл бұрын
Damn, Colin Firth freaking killed this role. Wow.
@ANProductionsOfficialChannel
6 жыл бұрын
A brilliant and chilling film. All the performances are just fantastic.
@Everywhere2
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this crucial scene freely available.
@ADavid42
8 ай бұрын
It takes extraordinary dedication and a strong sense of responsibility to play these historical monsters properly, with conviction. The actor must reach for the darker parts of his humanity and show it to the world.
@Nebris
4 жыл бұрын
What is fascinating is that the only physical violence in this film is a snowball fight among the drivers, for which they are reprimanded.
@johnking5174
3 жыл бұрын
Nazi leaders and high officials of the party would never have physically fought. They knew if they ever tried, they would be sent to a concentration camp. Martin Luther, the under secretary for the Foreign Office was the only one of the participants who was sent to a concentration camp a year after this conference.
@Nebris
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 Ummm...my observation didn't have anything to do with resistance to Hitler. Every man there is a Totally Loyal Nazi. What I was noting is 'murder by bureaucracy', all done with words and charts and all so calm and peaceful, eg 'without any physical violence', except for the snowball fight, which is actually playful. Ya know, Cinematic Juxtaposition.
@Nebris
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 Luther got sent to a camp because he was playing power games and got squashed. He was never 'resistant'.
@williamwallace2278
5 жыл бұрын
Firth! His acting and legal discussion is excellent. Rather scary the discussion, as if the people he is discussing are simple chattels to give away
@frankdodd3355
3 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that Firth in this scene is not arguing against isolating and eradicating the freedom of the Jews, he's just warning that what is being suggested is extrajudicial. In the end, what happened was completely extrajudicial. But it was the judicial nature of the laws in the first place that normalized the behavior that ultimately caused even more extreme men to say, "the ends justifies the means". Period.
@leelarson107
4 жыл бұрын
I fully agree about the intensity, even vehemence, of Colin Firth's portrayal of Wilhelm Stuckart. He even surpasses the riveting performance of Peter Fitz as Stuckart in the 1984 'The Wannsee Conference'.
@AlexanderNixonArtHistory
2 жыл бұрын
this is a sick monologue; so many layers.
@andrewgonzalez6336
Жыл бұрын
“Go on with the food.” At the end is so casual and so chilling.
@evancrum6811
4 ай бұрын
The acting in this movie is just fantastic. There are so many great acting in this enitre movie
@JagerLange
4 жыл бұрын
Awkward Dinner Parties From History: Genocide Series
@jbtechcon7434
3 жыл бұрын
Drop whatever you're doing and create that KZitem channel right now!
@stevejohnston9972
7 жыл бұрын
lt is totally irrelevant whether the actors have to look exactly like the original characters. An impression of the original character is all that's required. All these actors produced a fine performance of the most cold and calculated destruction of the Jewish nation.
@pudsrus2
7 жыл бұрын
I agree with you mostly coz of your name
@andrewjacks2716
6 жыл бұрын
Nation meaning people, not a geographic unit.
@mlester6552
6 жыл бұрын
Can't be cold when dealing with swine.
@johnbull1568
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Branagh nails Heidrich's ruthless and charming efficiency, or at least what we know about him.
@inmate24601
4 жыл бұрын
@DevilAshes It's no "lie." They may have failed, but that was precisely their intent, which is what I believe he meant.
@dknox90803
2 жыл бұрын
That icy cold response, “I’ll remember you.” Terrifying.
@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114
Жыл бұрын
Colin Firth as Dr Wilhelm Stuckart, he is very brillant! Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and Kevin McNally is very proud to play with him in this masterpiece!
@maestroclassico5801
Жыл бұрын
A roomfull of amazing actors in one scene. Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone were probably a bit envious.
@turanga35
3 жыл бұрын
All of the performances Were spot on👍
@timbunker4529
Жыл бұрын
This film should be compulsory viewing. It's absolutely chilling and the acting superb.
@VanaeCavae
4 жыл бұрын
This movie has an excellent cast. They all acted well.
@edader1549
5 жыл бұрын
Terrifying for it's cold-bloodedness.
@jimmy2k4o
2 жыл бұрын
The horror of the nazis was they didn’t think they were doing anything serious or wrong. The banality of evil.
@John-rn1nm
8 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite part in the move!
@Grubnar
4 жыл бұрын
Mine is "how many layers are in this room? *Show of hands* My God, it is worse than I thought!"
@thomasdidymus1393
4 жыл бұрын
YES!!! Colon Firth stole this scene. What a marvelous cast. Jeez...Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Ian McNeice, etc.
@joefeeney5497
7 ай бұрын
I really only know of Colin Firth from this and The Staircase. The man is a TREMENDOUS actor.
@craigevans6156
6 ай бұрын
An amazing and chilling performance by all in this film.
@XKT035
6 жыл бұрын
"...and there was this one time, at four year plan camp..."
@LagunaLorie
5 жыл бұрын
Oh not the fucking 4 year plan camp again!
@stayingwithit8632
4 жыл бұрын
From the home office for THE THOUSAND YEAR PLAN *squeals in trump*
@kaydenpat
2 жыл бұрын
Great movie. A must watch if you’re interested in how “The Final Solution” came to be.
@jamesvangurpan1959
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant movie....tremendous dialog
@Nigelg68
5 жыл бұрын
brilliant movie, and the actors, quality thanks
@einefreunde
5 жыл бұрын
That was bloody brilliant!!!!!
@aviladiazvictoralonso3978
3 жыл бұрын
One of the best monologues in any movie film
@bobbydeuce6486
Жыл бұрын
It’s scary how the film shows how these men view themselves as philosophers. It’s easy to forget that an ideal can cut so deep that even the sensible become crazed.
@jameshagan2832
Жыл бұрын
Colin firth's role is the scariest in the movie because he is the most real. Everyone else is a cartoonish super villain who is easy to hate. His role is a person who can be in the government of any western democracy at the wrong time.
@davidormsby9439
Жыл бұрын
This movie chiiling as it is but the performances especially Colin Firth are superb.
@jimmy2k4o
2 жыл бұрын
If you ignore the subject they’re discussing. It looks like a productive meeting of well mannered cultured gentlemen. Well educated upper class, witty and even charming. That’s the real juxtaposition that’s so disturbing. Germany a well cultured advanced society that committed some of the cruelest barbarism this species is seen. Meanwhile maintaining some measure of civility, they really believed themselves to be normal, as if they believed their actions to be reasonable. It’s a scary lesson about the fragility of humanity and our susceptibility to be fooled into commuting unspeakable evil.
@Tounushi
2 жыл бұрын
Banality of evil. When teeming masses of humanity are reduced to a spreadsheet, even the meekest pencil pusher can usher the most horrid atrocities.
@96babiesarelit17
4 жыл бұрын
This movie shows just how much the inner circle was on the outside
@rcherrycoke7322
Жыл бұрын
Incredible acting
@luvmenow33
Жыл бұрын
I'll never forget how this movie chilled me to the bone
@Kazuya720
2 жыл бұрын
As a German listening this in posh-british English makes it quite nice. Like some gentlemen haven a business meeting :)
@serious7179
2 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent, chilling movie
@peterfrank3365
3 жыл бұрын
I want to see Firth and Branagh share the screen again.
@syang7775
Ай бұрын
Decades ago, they co-starred in a British movie " A month in the country"
@forrester8983
3 ай бұрын
simply amazing performances by these men
@d0cn0tes
2 жыл бұрын
Branagh's character, under the pretense of civility and calm, is the soul of a monster named Rienhart Heydrich
@Millienfilm81
7 ай бұрын
I only came from Wannsee Museum in Wannsee, DE only this afternoon. Moving space and historical reference in which this meeting actually took place. It is across from a beach where children swim.
@josenighthawk
2 жыл бұрын
Colin Firth ... Tour d' Force!
@ikercompeanleroux1315
6 ай бұрын
This movie is a film acting master class. They never play evil which makes the words coming out from their mouths to be so diabolical.
@kitharrison8799
6 ай бұрын
Excellent performances here, as might be expected from so glittering a cast. The original 1984 German film The Wannsee Conference is also on KZitem and very much equal to this production.
@TheMimifur
Жыл бұрын
Conspiracy should be made a must watch to every generation. It is one of the most moving and heartbreaking films I have ever seen and this history should never be forgotten
@davidlasdon457
6 ай бұрын
I can only imagine how many takes they had to do to get these performances and the amount of time that the director had to spend with each actor to get the performances. You need to go somewhere very difficult to play this level of evil so casually and it can't be easy to maintain it.
@simonpearn479
3 жыл бұрын
Creme de la creme of acting talent!
@XKT035
3 жыл бұрын
What is chilling about Conspiracy is the banality of the office-speak.
@ISyrianaI
6 жыл бұрын
Excellent !
@evo5dave
5 жыл бұрын
Bloody difficult to find this to stream or to purchase a download in UK.
@gx2music
2 жыл бұрын
“Let us take a moment”.
@lonl123
2 ай бұрын
Colin Firth did a fantastic job in this...hell, the whole cast was brilliant...and it's monstrous...the whole damn thing...and it really happened.
@bigbaba1111
5 жыл бұрын
scary scene. and very well played.
@terraLiquidus
5 жыл бұрын
I can’t remember being filled with rage quite like I was the first time I saw this film. It’s an extremely well made work of art, and well worth a watch, but that this meeting actually happened gnaws at ones soul.
@ponddweller525
5 жыл бұрын
Pudzian Yes, I’ve heard they are taking over all the fish n chip shops up north........how can this be 🙄
@inmate24601
4 жыл бұрын
@Dick Fageroni What exactly did you find hyperbolic? Rage is hardly an inappropriate response to the horror portrayed here. And, if the cold & calculated genocide of millions of innocents doesn't gnaw at one's soul, then the soul must be absent.
@marvwatkins7029
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of this drama and dialog, like the German TV version of 1984 us purely inventive and speculative. And no one looks anything like the originals. But it does make for interesting drama. It's also amazing that so much was said and 'accomplished' in supposedly just 90 minutes including breaks and lunch.
@artemvsprime
7 ай бұрын
IMHO this is the greatest horror movie I’ve seen, because it’s real. Great script and awesome acting by everyone.
@Alienalloy
11 ай бұрын
a very powerful film, glad its being re made
@verttikoo2052
7 ай бұрын
Why? What? Why would anyone remake this? No one can make it better than it is. They sealed a genocide in one day and established the killing machine. The movie tells the story in a way like you would be a fly in the sealing. After that, you just want to throw up and then stop them.
@Alienalloy
7 ай бұрын
agree, i meant I'm glad its being remade for a new younger audience who i doubt would ever seek out this old BBC version. @@verttikoo2052
@fatbrownbuffalo7027
6 жыл бұрын
Best part Neuman: In my office of the four year plan-- Klopfer: OH not that FUCKING Four Year Plan again!...
@chrismichael6048
Жыл бұрын
Stukart preferred subtle method while Heydrich preferred direct method。That shows Stukart believes in achieving strategic success albeit time-consuming process while Heydrich was more interested in achieving quick result without any consideration for consequences。
@johnking5174
Жыл бұрын
Stuckart was a bureaucrat, and so time consuming meant more work for him and his ministry.
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