GERMAN CURRENTS KINO SAN DIEGO

Matti Geschonneck's award-winning film THE CONFERENCE (DIE WANNSEEKONFERENZ) is presented as part of GERMAN CURRENTS KINO San Diego, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut, emago media, and the Digital Gym Cinema.

SHOWTIMES:
Friday, May 9th @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, MAy 11th @ 3:00 PM


Germany (2021), 104 Min. in German w/ english subtitles
Director: Matti Geschonneck, Screenplay: Magnus Vattrodt Paul Mommertz, DoP: Theo Bierkens, Cast: Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer, Maximilian Brückner, Matthias Bundschuh, Fabian Busch, Jakob Diehl, Godehard Giese, Rafael Stachowiak, Frederic Linkemann, Arnd Klawitter, Producers: Reinhold Elschot, Friederich Oetker, Production: Constantin Television GmbH (München)

On the morning of January 20, 1942, in a villa on the Großen Wannsee in Berlin leading members of the National Socialist regime including memebers of the SS, Reich Chancellery, various ministries, the police, and others in the adminstration were invited by Reinhard Heydrich to a "meeting followed by breakfast". This meeting would go down in history as the "Wannsee Conference". The sole topic on the agenda that morning was what the Nazis called the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question": the organization of the systematic mass murder of millions of Jews throughout Europe. 
Geschonnecks critically acclaimed, historically accurate and haunting drama  follows the protocol of this meeting,  as recorded by Adolf Eichmann, a key document pertaining to the Holocaust..Shot at the original location at Wannsee Lake in Berlin and produced by Constantin Television GmbH for the 80th commemoration day of the conference in 2022, THE CONFERENCE features some of the most well-known German-speaking actors in the lead roles: Philipp Hochmair („The Experiment“), Johannes Allmayer („Colonia Dignidad“), Maximilian Brückner („Cherryblossoms“), Thomas Loibl („Toni Erdmann“) and Rafael Stachowiak („Undine“).
 

SELECT AWARDS:
Adolf-Grimme-Award Germany 2023: Best Film