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The entire film can be found on [[YouTube]]. You can read more about the historical background to the film [[wikipedia:Wannsee Conference|here.]] See the list of actors and personalities for info on the specific men involved.
The entire film can be found on [[YouTube]]. You can read more about the historical background to the film [[wikipedia:Wannsee Conference|here.]] See the list of actors and personalities for info on the specific men involved.


== Cast and Historical Personalities ==
'''Cast and Historical Personalities:'''

* '''Kenneth Branagh''' as '''Reinhard Heydrich''': The SS Chief of Reich Security (Main Office) and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich serves as the main protagonist for the film. He has ultimate oversight over all matters relating to the Jewish question, and is the immediate subordinate to Heinrich Himmler. A ruthless and intelligent man, he spends much of the film threatening, flattering and cajoling to bring the ministries into line. He was killed by British-trained Czech commandos with an anti-tank grenade laced with botulinum poison in 1942.
* '''Kenneth Branagh''' as '''Reinhard Heydrich''': The SS Chief of Reich Security (Main Office) and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich serves as the main protagonist for the film. He has ultimate oversight over all matters relating to the Jewish question, and is the immediate subordinate to Heinrich Himmler. A ruthless and intelligent man, he spends much of the film threatening, flattering and cajoling to bring the ministries into line. He was killed by British-trained Czech commandos with an anti-tank grenade laced with botulinum poison in 1942.
* '''Stanley Tucci''' as '''Adolf Eichmann''': Immediate subordinate to Heydrich, and head of the SS Office for Jewish Affairs, Eichmann is the man tasked with arranging the meeting, and the final solution that arises from it. Eichmann takes the role of a dispassionate observer, frequently chiming in on Heydrich's side, and generally as a man with no purpose beyond ideology. He later became known as the "architect of the Holocaust". After the war, he fled to Argentina, where he was kidnapped by Mossad and taken to Israel, where he became the only man ever to executed by that country.
* '''Stanley Tucci''' as '''Adolf Eichmann''': Immediate subordinate to Heydrich, and head of the SS Office for Jewish Affairs, Eichmann is the man tasked with arranging the meeting, and the final solution that arises from it. Eichmann takes the role of a dispassionate observer, frequently chiming in on Heydrich's side, and generally as a man with no purpose beyond ideology. He later became known as the "architect of the Holocaust". After the war, he fled to Argentina, where he was kidnapped by Mossad and taken to Israel, where he became the only man ever to executed by that country.
* '''[[Colin Firth]]''' as '''Wilhelm Stuckart''': State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under Wilhelm Frick, Stuckart was author of the racist Nuremberg Laws. Argues for avoiding distress to German couples and prefers the sterilization and "natural extinction" of Jews to Heydrich's policy of extermination. During the film, he plays a highly adversarial role to Heydrich and Eichmann, at least until Heydrich explains a few things to him. He survived the war, was released from prison in 1949 and killed in a car accident in 1953.
* '''[[Colin Firth]]''' as '''Wilhelm Stuckart''': State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under Wilhelm Frick, Stuckart was author of the racist Nuremberg Laws. Argues for avoiding distress to German couples and prefers the sterilization and "natural extinction" of Jews to Heydrich's policy of extermination. During the film, he plays a highly adversarial role to Heydrich and Eichmann, at least until Heydrich explains a few things to him. He survived the war, was released from prison in 1949 and killed in a car accident in 1953.
* '''Ian [[Mc Neice]]''' as '''Gerhard Klopfer''': A fat, loud, arrogant and rude Nazi bigwig, he, as he constantly reminds everyone, speaks for Martin Bormann, the party chancellor. He does not get along well with Stuckart, whose insistence that everything be legal does not gel with Klopfer's idea that the Nazis make the laws they need on the spot. He shows more interest in the food than the Jews, and happily impersonates Jews being gassed. He was released after the war due to lack of evidence, becoming a tax advisor in Ulm. He died in 1987.
* '''Ian McNeice''' as '''Gerhard Klopfer''': A fat, loud, arrogant and rude Nazi bigwig, he, as he constantly reminds everyone, speaks for Martin Bormann, the party chancellor. He does not get along well with Stuckart, whose insistence that everything be legal does not gel with Klopfer's idea that the Nazis make the laws they need on the spot. He shows more interest in the food than the Jews, and happily impersonates Jews being gassed. He was released after the war due to lack of evidence, becoming a tax advisor in Ulm. He died in 1987.
* '''Kevin [[Mc Nally]]''' as '''Martin Luther''': Undersecretary at the Nazi Foreign Office. Violently anti-semitic, he speaks for Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He is prepared to go along with whatever Heydrich says, and generally tries to ingratiate himself with the SS. After a failed attempt to usurp his boss, Von Ribbentrop, he was sent to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, and died of a heart attack shortly after its liberation by the Red Army in 1945.
* '''Kevin McNally''' as '''Martin Luther''': Undersecretary at the Nazi Foreign Office. Violently anti-semitic, he speaks for Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He is prepared to go along with whatever Heydrich says, and generally tries to ingratiate himself with the SS. After a failed attempt to usurp his boss, Von Ribbentrop, he was sent to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, and died of a heart attack shortly after its liberation by the Red Army in 1945.
* '''David Threfall''' as '''Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger''', the Deputy Head of the Reich Chancellery under Hans Lammers. Kritzinger shares Stuckart's opposition to outright extermination, and is the only participants who come close to making a moral objection (in [[Real Life]], Kritzinger was the only participant to express any remorse over his actions). Initially he takes at face value terms such as "evacuation" and "labour", before realizing their true nature. He attempted to resign after the Conference, but this was refused on unknown grounds. After the war, he declared himself ashamed of what he had done, and was released from Allied custody. He died in 1947.
* '''David Threfall''' as '''Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger''', the Deputy Head of the Reich Chancellery under Hans Lammers. Kritzinger shares Stuckart's opposition to outright extermination, and is the only participants who come close to making a moral objection (in [[Real Life]], Kritzinger was the only participant to express any remorse over his actions). Initially he takes at face value terms such as "evacuation" and "labour", before realizing their true nature. He attempted to resign after the Conference, but this was refused on unknown grounds. After the war, he declared himself ashamed of what he had done, and was released from Allied custody. He died in 1947.
* '''Ewan Stewart''' as '''Georg Leibbrant''': Part of the occupying administration for the Eastern Territories, Liebbrant is concerned for the situation the Eastern territories and for the connection between Communism and Judaism. He also discusses sterilization positively, but generally gives the impression that his main concern is the situation in the ''Ostministerium''. After the war, he was interned, but released without trial in 1950. He emigrated to the USA that year, but later returned to Germany, dying in 1982 in Bonn.
* '''Ewan Stewart''' as '''Georg Leibbrant''': Part of the occupying administration for the Eastern Territories, Liebbrant is concerned for the situation the Eastern territories and for the connection between Communism and Judaism. He also discusses sterilization positively, but generally gives the impression that his main concern is the situation in the ''Ostministerium''. After the war, he was interned, but released without trial in 1950. He emigrated to the USA that year, but later returned to Germany, dying in 1982 in Bonn.
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* [[Ensemble Cast]]: Several distinguished names in British T.V and Hollywood are there:
* [[Ensemble Cast]]: Several distinguished names in British T.V and Hollywood are there:
** [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Heydrich
** [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Heydrich
** Ian Mc Niece as Klopfer
** Ian McNiece as Klopfer
** Stanley Tucci as Eichmann
** Stanley Tucci as Eichmann
** [[Colin Firth]] as Stuckart
** [[Colin Firth]] as Stuckart
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Kritzinger and Stuckart both feel that the Nazis are going too fast - Stuckart argues for the rule of law whilst Kritzinger feels outright murder is a step too far.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Kritzinger and Stuckart both feel that the Nazis are going too fast - Stuckart argues for the rule of law whilst Kritzinger feels outright murder is a step too far.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: Schoengarth gives a contemptuous wink to Buehler and Meyer when they confront him about undermining them.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: Schoengarth gives a contemptuous wink to Buehler and Meyer when they confront him about undermining them.
* [[Expository Narration]]: Very briefly, at the beginning.
* [[Exposition]]: Very briefly, at the beginning, in narration.
* [[Fascist but Inefficient]]: The Nazis spend much of the film squabbling about very petty matters of jurisdiction.
* [[Fascist but Inefficient]]: The Nazis spend much of the film squabbling about very petty matters of jurisdiction.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Klopfer is enormous, and piles his plate with food before walking back to the conference table after lunch.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Klopfer is enormous, and piles his plate with food before walking back to the conference table after lunch.
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* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil|Peer Pressure Makes You Slightly More Evil]]: Eventually, even those who objected to the extermination program are coerced into giving it active support.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil|Peer Pressure Makes You Slightly More Evil]]: Eventually, even those who objected to the extermination program are coerced into giving it active support.
* [[Piggybacking on Hitler]]: Heydrich.
* [[Piggybacking on Hitler]]: Heydrich.
* [[Politically Incorrect Villian]]: Many of the participants toss around "the Tribe" "Yids" and "scum" when referring to the Jews. Their attitudes towards woman are not particularly enlightened either.
* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Many of the participants toss around "the Tribe" "Yids" and "scum" when referring to the Jews. Their attitudes towards woman are not particularly enlightened either.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: All the SS and Party men wear snappy uniforms. Averted with the civilians, who just wear lounge suits, although Buehler is sure to keep his party badge prominently displayed.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: All the SS and Party men wear snappy uniforms. Averted with the civilians, who just wear lounge suits, although Buehler is sure to keep his party badge prominently displayed.
* [[Ravens and Crows]]: Are heard at the beginning of the film.
* [[Ravens and Crows]]: Are heard at the beginning of the film.
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