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Conspiracy
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783118451
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118457
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: D91783D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 2001
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Editorial Review:
On January 20, 1942, with the tide of war turning in favor of the Allies, a small group of SS officers, government ministers, and Nazi officials met near Berlin to decide the fate of Europe's Jews. Based on the only surviving record of that meeting, Conspiracy is a powerful combination of historical reconstruction and speculation that attempts to offer new insights into a pivotal moment in history.
The cast does a marvelous job of fleshing out the documentary evidence to create convincing characters. Kenneth Branagh is especially chilling as SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich, who uses a combination of charm and ruthless power-mongering to gain support for his plans. Colin Firth is fascinating as Wilhelm Stuckart, a lawyer who sees the brutal tactics of the SS as a threat to his own intellectualized anti-Semitism, and Stanley Tucci gives a wonderfully understated performance as Adolf Eichmann.
Conspiracy is a carefully crafted, completely unsensational film that offers ample proof of the banality of evil. There are no histrionics and no comic-book Nazi villains, just a small group of politicians and war-weary soldiers arguing about the meaning of words and the logistics of extermination, calmly preparing to unleash an unimaginable horror on the world. --Simon Leake
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Super Movie
This movie is really good to have. It really brings home again how terrible a thing it was about the Nazis killing the Jews. A good movie to make a older teenage sit down and watch to understand history's violence and agression.
Rating: - Branagh Shines as Heydrich
I missed this film when it originally aired since I do not have HBO. However, a friend of mine brought it to my attention about 4 years ago and I am glad he did. For an entire film taking place (for the most part) in one room, it is amazingly riveting. Watching these Nazi's sitting around the table eating, drinking, and joking while they discuss the "final solution" is quite chilling. Those familiar with the Wansee Conference will respect the accuracy of the portrayal of events while those new to ... Read More
Rating: - Manuel Vidal. Es una película que captura la decisión sobre la solución final
En esta película se muestra la banalidad que acompañó a la discusión en la cual se decidió la solución final para la "Judenfrage" o "Cuestión judía". Es un complemento que aporta mucho a la comprensión del libro de Hannah Arendt: "El juicio de Eichmann en Jerusalén". La pregunta entre los asistentes a la reunión de Wannsee no radicaba en si era bueno o no acabar a un pueblo entero, no entre todos abirtamente, sino en cómo hacerlo más eficaz, eficiente y efectivamente al menor costo para ... Read More
Rating:  - Deadly Dry... But That's Not A Bad Thing
A ninety minute dramatization of the infamous "Final Solution" meeting where a little over a dozen high-ranking wartime Germans got together and talked, in euphemistic, statistical, and theoretical terms, about mass murder. The film spices things up by showing the rivalry behind the usually monolithic-looking Nazi Party, but the lesson to take from this one is, indeed, the dryness. Here is a bunch of mere men talking about killing millions of people with no more morality than a board meeting talking ... Read More
Rating: - Low Budget Genius
I know it's been said before, but I have to say that it's amazing what you can do when you get an outstanding cast of actors together with an outstanding script. This film is basically like a one act play. Very simple, no scene changes, no special effects, but boy does it work!
This film is a dramatization of the meeting where Hitler's leading men decided the fate of six million jews. Probably, the most disturbing thing about the film is that everything seems so commonplace, like an ordinary ... Read More
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