Conspiracy (BBC Two 2002, Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci)

Drama recreating the secret summit meeting held at a Wanasee villa in the outskirts of Berlin in 1942 where SS General Reinhard Heydrich and a group of 15 senior Nazi party members and military officials plotted the annihilation of the Jewish people – The Final Solution. Based on the sole-surviving record of the meeting.

production details
UK / BBC Two / 1×90 minutes / Broadcast 25 January 2002 at 9:00pm

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Writer: Loring Mandel / Producer: Nick Gillot / Director: Frank Pierson

cast
KENNETH BRANAGH as Reinhard Heydrich
STANLEY TUCCI as Adolf Eichmann
DAVID THRELFALL as Freidrich Kritzinger
COLIN FIRTH as Wilhelm Stuckart
BARNABY KAY as Rudolph Lange
BEN DANIELS as Joseph Buhler
JONATHAN COY as Erich Neumann
BRENDAN COYLE as Heinrich Muller
IAN McNIECE as Gerhard Klopfer
OWEN TEALE as Roland Freisler
NICHOLAS WOODESON as Otto Hoffman
EWAN STEWART as Georg Leibbrandt
KEVIN McNALLY as Martin Luther
BRIAN PETTIFER as Alfred Pettifer
PETER SULLIVAN as Karl Schongarth

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