Die Wannseekonferenz (2022 film)

Die Wannseekonferenz, international title The Conference, is a German TV docudrama, first aired January 24, 2022 by the ZDF broadcaster, about the Wannsee Conference held in Berlin-Wannsee in 1942 to organise the extermination of the Jews.

Background
Director Matti Geschonneck shows a reenactment of the real Wannsee Conference held January 20, 1942, based on a script by Magnus Vattrodt. German Nazi officials meet midst the Second World War to determine the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. It is not the beginning of the Shoah but it is a meeting to coordinate various government branches for carrying out the destruction of Jews.



Cast

 * Philipp Hochmair as Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
 * Johannes Allmayer	as Adolf Eichmann, Head of RSHA IV B4
 * Sascha Nathan	as	Dr. Josef Bühler
 * Arnd Klawitter as Dr. Roland Freisler, for the Reich Ministry of Justice
 * Markus Schleinzer	as	Otto Hofmann
 * Fabian Busch as Dr. Gerhard Klopfer
 * Thomas Loibl	as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
 * Frederic Linkemann as Dr. Rudolf Lange
 * Rafael Stachowiak	as Georg Leibbrandt
 * Simon Schwarz	as	Martin Luther
 * Peter Jordan	as	Dr. Alfred Meyer
 * Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller, Chief of RSHA Department IV (the Gestapo)
 * Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann
 * Maximilian Brückner as Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth
 * Godehard Giese as Wilhelm Stuckart, for the Reich Ministry for the Interior
 * Lilli Fichtner as Ingeburg Werlemann
 * Frederik Schmid as Eichmanns adjutant

Awards and nominations
German Television Award


 * 2022: Best Film Made for Television
 * 2022: Best Writing Fiction – Paul Mommertz and Magnus Vattrodt
 * 2022: Best Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Nominee)
 * 2022: Best Directing Fiction – Matti Geschonneck (Nominee)

Grimme Award
 * 2023: Fiction

Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival


 * 2022: Best Film

Civis Media Prize


 * 2022: Entertainment (Civis Video Award)

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards


 * 2022: Feature Films (Gold Award)

Romy

Prix Europa
 * 2022: Favorite Actor – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich)
 * 2022: Best Film TV/Stream – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot
 * 2022: Best Writing TV/Stream – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz


 * 2022: Best European TV Film

Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis


 * 2022: Best Film

Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden
 * 2022: 3sat-Publikumspreis (Audience Award)