The Wannsee Conference (film)
| The Wannsee Conference | |
|---|---|
| Based on | Wannsee Conference |
| Written by | Paul Mommertz |
| Directed by | Heinz Schirk |
| Country of origin | Austria West Germany |
| Original language | German |
| Production | |
| Producer | Siegfried B. Glökler |
| Editor | Ulla Möllinger |
| Running time | 85 minutes (Germany) 87 minutes (United States) |
| Production companies | Infafilm GmbH Manfred Korytowski Munich Austrian Television-O.R.F. Bavarian Broadcasting Corp. |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1984 |
The Wannsee Conference (German: Die Wannseekonferenz) is a 1984 West German - Austrian TV film portraying the events of the Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942. The script is derived from the minutes of the meeting. Since no verbatim transcription of the meeting exists, the dialogue is necessarily fictionalised. The main theme of the film is the bureaucratic nature of the genocide.
The same events were later depicted in the 2001 English-language film Conspiracy.