A movie for WWII movie buffs: Conspiracy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

It is superbly written and filmed. Kenneth Branaugh, Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth are all excellent.

It shows the meeting of high German officials and SS leaders as they discuss the "final solution." Very chilling.

I highly recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/

[Lasher]

1. I saw that a long time ago on TV.

If there were one word I would use to describe it, it would be chilling. Knowing this is a true historical account makes it even more so.

More about it (spoiler warning): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%282001_film%29

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I'd never seen it...

Thanks for the link!

[LibertyLover]

3. I take it that it's about the Wannsee Conference?

That would be chilling indeed. Thank you however for the recommendation. I love WWII movies and history and will check it out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Yes it is, my dear LibertyLover!

It's really excellent.

And yes, chilling...:scared:

[LibertyLover]

9. Years ago my mom and I were in Berlin

It was the first stop on an American Express tour of Eastern Europe and Russia and it was fascinating. It was pre-unification, so when we went over to East Berlin we had to go through Checkpoint Charlie. I got a number of people on the tour mad at me because I said "good morning" to the East German guards in German. The guards were nice enough not to laugh at my American accent. At one point during the bus tour of the West Berlin, we passed a villa and the guide pointed to it and said it was the Wannsee Villa, where the conference on the Final Solution had been held. It's a memorial now I understand. It was a grey, rainy day and seeing that place did nothing to lighten up the atmosphere. Things didn't get better until that afternoon when I got to see the bust of Nefertiti.

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. What's wrong with saying "guten Morgen"?

Nobody should have gotten mad at you for that.

Since you speak German, you might prefer the 1984 TV program: "Die Wannseekonferenz"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088377/

[LibertyLover]

13. I'm not sure that my German is up for a whole movie

I can carry on basic conversations, although over the years I've gotten a bit better at understanding spoken German, my training was primarily to read it for research purposes.

The folks on the tour had been "scared straight" so to speak that the border crossing guards were nasty, awful people whose sole purpose in life was to detain Americans. We had been told not to say anything to anybody. But one of the guards was young, about my age and he greeted me. I felt it was just polite to say something back.

[Lionel Mandrake]

14. Well, you can always cheat

by reading the English subtitles. :evilgrin:

That's what I do. Having read a subtitle, I can usually hear some German words that I would otherwise have missed.

[kick-ass-bob]

4. put it in my NF queue :)

Thanks!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear kick-ass-bob!

I think you won't be sorry!

You're welcome!

:hi:

[Forkboy]

7. Thanks for the heads up.

Sounds good.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear Forkboy!

It IS good...

A good look into a bit of history that I was unaware of...

[Identity-H]

11. I'll check it out.

Tnanks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Welcome to DU, Identity-H!

If you're a history buff, you will enjoy this film...

I was riveted.

Enjoy our DU conversations...

:hi:

[Kaleva]

15. For a movie about Russian troops fighting in Afghanistan, check out 9th Company

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417397/

Watched it a couple of weeks ago on Netflix and it's very good. Follows a group of young men who make it thru training together and the greater hell they experience serving in the Afghanistan.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Thanks for the tip, my dear Kaleva!

Maybe our glorious leaders should watch it too!

:hi:

[Aristus]

17. My wife watched that with me. She likes Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth.

I'm the history buff of the two of us; she kept asking me: ""What about Colin Firth? Is he a good guy?" "No honey, he plays a bad guy; they're all bad guys." "But what about Kenneth Branagh? Is he a good guy?" "No, honey. He plays Reinhardt Heydrich, a really, REALLY bad guy."

She didn't like that two of her favorite actors were playing such spectacularly evil men.

BTW, "Conspiracy" was adapted from a German TV movie that originated the idea of portraying the Wannsee Conference in real-time, about 90 minutes or so.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. My dear Aristus!

It's difficult to watch your favorite actors playing really, REALLY bad guys, isn't it?

I especially enjoyed the ending wrap-up. I always like it when we find out what happened...

:hi: