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The Wannsee Conference
Prize-winner 2022
CIVIS VIDEO AWARD – Entertainment
| Authors: | Magnus Vattrodt, Paul Mommertz |
| Editorial: | Stefanie von Heydwolff, Frank Zervos (ZDF) |
| Direction: | Matti Geschonneck |
| Production: | ZDF |
| Producer: | Friederich Oetker, Reinhold Elschot |
| Executive Producer: | Oliver Berben (Constantin Film) |
Further informations https://www.zdf.de/filme/die-wannseekonferenz/die-wannseekonferenz-104.html#autoplay=true
Content
On January 20, 1942, 15 senior officials of the SS, the NSDAP and the ministerial bureaucracy convened for a “meeting followed by breakfast” in a villa on the Großer Wannsee in Berlin. In an hour and a half, the bureaucratic procedures of the extermination of the Jews were discussed in detail and agreed upon. The film depicts the monstrous gathering on the basis of the minutes by Adolf Eichmann, one of the participants.
Excerpt from the jury’s statement
The film sticks closely to the authentic minutes of a conversation about the organisation of a mass murder. But this is much more than a window into the past. The film, depressingly brought to life by great actors, is a reminder of how far a dehumanized bureaucracy is capable of going. At the same time, it is a warning of evolving inhumanity in some right-wing discourse today.
anti-Semitism right wing populism/ right wing radicalism/ right wing extremism
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