A really nicely written kammerspiel on the bizarrely (and chillingly) civil debate surrounding nazi Germany's "endlösnung". In short "12 Aryan Men"

As fascinating as it is nauseating. You keep looking for a good guy to root for, and once you can't find one, the least bad guy, but to no avail. The almost real-time presentation makes it all the better.

Restrained, chilling performances by Branagh and Tucci as Heydrich and Eichmann, and Pierson does a good job making a movie out of people seated around a table talking. This film is compelling because it focuses on the meeting itself--agendas stated and hidden, power struggles and personal dynamics--and consequently anyone who has ever been in a meeting can identify with some of the characters' fears and goals, and therefore--since there are no good guys here--we become complicit in the evil.

An interesting part of Holocaust history that is shown far too little. However, this might have been one of the inspirations for Quentin Tarantino to do Inglourious Basterds, because this movie lacks what most Nazi-movies do: German actors. Instead, to give the American audience the European touch, they take British actors for Nazis... Besides all this, their performances are convincing.

Impressive - and very frightening - recreation of the Wannsee Conference. "The Jew Issue". *Shudder*

One has to wonder how much is speculation and interpretation. Certainly all the parts outside the conference room were fabricated, so perhaps some of the stuff inside the room was not from the official record either. Not that 100% accuracy is a requirement, or even necessarily advisable, but I like to know how much truth I'm getting. Interesting and chilling (naturally) with some restrained performances from Branagh and Tucci and all. Not remarkable as cinema, but compelling subject matter.

If you ever wondered what it was like to sit in a room with a bunch of Germans deciding on how they were going to eradicate all the Jews, this is for you! ...Not really for me though. You really have to be attentive to understand what is happening, its all dialogue. The performances didn't seem to be anything special to me. ..I dont know, it just wasn't that engaging or captivating.

A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazis address \"the Jew problem\" taken from the notes of the conference. The movie is impressive on many levels throughout and exposes the view to some of the humanity of fascism. Monsters didn't do it, people did. People, just like any other, in a group with an agenda.

Knife twisting, white knuckling, banal evil.

12 Angry Men but in Nazi Germany. Stunning delivery of dialogue and tone by Branagh

the acting was top notch tbh all great actors but the structure could have been better and pacing was relatively slow if you do not know what you expect before watching but if you know then it is typical for a meeting room

Like The King's Speech, it's incredibly boring but somehow watchable. It accomplishes what it sets out to do, but it's just so dry. I don't know if this story could have been told in a more compelling way; you would think so, but probably not. It's worth watching if your a Nazi completist, otherwise you're not missing a whole lot.

A-

There's some decent "acting"--in the conventional sense--here, but the writing and delivery come much closer in tone to debate in British Parliament than anything actual Germans would say to each other. Apparently, no one involved with this flick had ever spent any time with actual Germans, or someone would have mentioned how completely false this re-imagining rings.

Some common misconceptions about this film: First, as the film itself (but not the imdb summary) makes clear, the Final Solution was not devised at Wannsee; indeed it was already under way. Second, there's no record of any direct dialogue from the conference; the script is informed speculation based on the surviving 10-page, heavily-redacted minutes, trial statements from the participants, etc. Having said that, it rings true; Branagh & Tucci are particularly good.

While I cannot fault the historical significance of the meeting which this movie depicts, it is nevertheless a long boring examination of Nazi extermination ideology. Delivered by a diplomatic SS general conducting a mostly polite meeting of government officials. He delivers the official secret government mandate to construct gas chambers and initiate the systematic genocide of the Jews. While performances are good, the subject is entirely atrocious and ultimately exhausting.

Very interesting.

Great acting and writing. Educational and entertaining. Basically everything it aspires to be.

what is cinema? i think it is shit without solid acting, so this movie is the opposite of shit, which is very good, which is the very opposite of cinematic brilliance, like transformers. yeah, i like these kinds of movies much better, movies which have a heart and soul, cause like the bard once said, without heart we should be mere machines.

Extremely effective docudrama of the Wannsee Conference, where the Final Solution--the extermination of Europe's Jews--was settled upon. A simple, unpretentious film (although the recreation of the era is extremely handsome), boasting a fine, restrained script by Loring Mandel, and an array of superb acting: Kenneth Branagh as an unsettlingly courteous Heydrich, Stanley Tucci as a cold, determined Eichmann, Colin Firth as the frustrated Dr. Stuckart, and Ian McNeice as the piggish Dr. Klopfer.

It's a movie built around the brilliant performances from the high quality cast. Tucci and Firth in particular are sensational.

I don't consider it cinematic brilliance but the performances are downright chilling to the both. The most terrifying part of the film, for me, is that it shows the participants that took part in the Wannsee Conference were actually humans, terrible bigots but humans non-the-less. And that makes it all the more terrifying for me. I have to note that Colin Firth's performance is absolutely fantastic.

My only objection against this movie is that Heydrich in this movie does not look much like himself in real life, which is actually not so much important.