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The History Connection - Conspiracy
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Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Directed By: Frank Pierson
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783118451
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0783118457
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-03-26
Running Time: 96
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001-05-19
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Summary: Planning of the Holocaust
Comment: This is a spell binding, macabre telling of the planning of the Holocaust by select Nazi's. This is not a pleasant movie but I'm glad someone was willing to tell it.
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Summary: Chillingly Intelligent
Comment: This movie is fascinating and brilliant on one hand and incredibly evil on the other. It is the true story of the secret meeting of Nazi officials where the details of the Final Solution are laid out for them. They are amazed to hear of plans for group showers, xylon B gas, and cremation ovens. These men are not monsters exactly, but they must at least appear to support the plan. Their lives and their families' lives depend on it. Kenneth Branagh leads the meeting with an iron fist in a velvet glove. His sharp eye convinces each attendee that this plan is perfectly rational and in the best interest of the Third Reich. Each man was given a copy of the minutes of the meeting and instructed to destroy it after reading. We only know of it because one officer failed to destroy his copy and it fell into Allied hands after the war.
Watch this movie carefully and learn from it. I truly believe that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.
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Summary: The mundane beginning of the holocaust
Comment: This film takes place in one place only and with a limited set of characters. It revolves around the Wannsee Conference, a meeting held at the highest levels of the German government and the Nazi Party. The conference brings together lawyers, technocrats, military (SS), and bureaucrats who, after being skillfully guided by Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich, set the stage for the mass extermination of the Jewish population in Europe. The issue is settled much as a trade treaty or a new public relations campaign might be. The scariest part of the story is how mundane all this was. The decision was made and carried out and that was the end of it, just a lot of numbers and trains and changes in official policy to these people.
Evil does not always wear a cloak and show off fangs... sometimes it just has to do with people with the power to do or not do.
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Summary: The blind leading...the vicious
Comment: I'm not certain what I can add that hasn't already been said -- so eloquently -- about this film. After seeing a film with someone, you might be tempted to ask that person, "Did you enjoy the movie?" This isn't a movie to be enjoyed; rather, it is an experience to be remembered and talked about. Needless to say, the acting is superb, as is the script. For me, I take note of what is said non-verbally...
When Heydrich tells Kritzinger that the Fuhrer will "continue to deny" any planning or intent to commit genocide no matter how many times Kritzinger broaches the subject with Hitler -- the look on Kritzinger's face is one of a man who has just had his rose-colored glasses ripped torn off and crushed in front of him. There could be no more rationalizations, no more putting on blinders. They weren't there to discuss anything. Kritzinger was there to listen...and obey.
A scene near the end -- mentioned by other reviewers -- where Heydrich gives Kritzinger his, "Oh, you'll answer now or you'll answer...later" ultimatum, you can see that the latter is totally deflated. He has become useless as a voice of reason. And his previously role as such a "statesman" was perfectly described by Heydrich when he told him, "And your philosophy is what -- hound them, improverish them, exploit them, imprison them, but do not kill them. And you are God's noblest of men. I find that very remarkable." Although Kritzinger murmured a feeble objection, he had to realize that he had been an instrument in the Nazis finally descending to the point of industrial age barbarism, complete with busload-sized ovens.
Finally, Klopfer's reaction to Eichmann's revelation that their latest version of "evacuating the Jews" would kill 2,500 defenseless men, women, and children per hour was...riveting. You could almost see in that pig's expression his attempt to visualize the slaughter.
The symbolic act of knocking on wood took on a whole new meaning for me after watching this movie.
And watch it, you should.
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Summary: Super Movie
Comment: 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.
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On january 20 1942 at the height of the second world war 15 government officials and ss commanders attended a conference on the outskirts of berlin. It was a simple meeting which by the end would decide the fate of six million lives. Conspiracy is based on the only surviving record of that meeting. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 03/29/2005 Starring: Kenneth Branagh Colin Firth Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R Director: Frank Pierso
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