Conspiracy (2001)
Director: Frank Pierson
Cast:
Kenneth Branagh .... Reinhard Heydrich
Stanley Tucci .... Adolf Eichmann
Colin Firth .... Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart
Barnaby Kay .... Rudolf Lange
Ben Daniels .... Dr. Joseph Bühler
David Threlfall .... Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger
Jonathan Coy .... Erich Neumann
Brendan Coyle .... Heinrich Müller
Ian McNeice .... Dr. Gerhard Klopfer
Owen Teale .... Dr. Roland Freisler
Nicholas Woodeson .... Otto Hofmann
Kevin McNally .... Undersecretary Martin Luther
Peter Sullivan .... Eberhard (Karl) Schöngarth, Commander in Chief of Security Police and Security Service (BdS)
Ewan Stewart .... Dr. Georg Leibbrandt, Permanent Secretary (Ministerialdirektor)
Brian Pettifer .... Dr. Alfred Meyer, State Secretary (Staatssekretär)Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Great movie. The movie is very chilling. One would think these formal and polite men were planning a business expansion. It is a scary movie because these men are so matter of fact about planning the wholesale murder of millions of Jews: the banality of corporate evil. (There is, however, always the threat of coercion via Herr Hitler that underlies the meeting. A few of the men had some lesser qualms, but were firmly put in their proper inferior places.)
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