Global Screen to Rep Constantin’s The Wannsee Conference

Global Screen is taking on the international distribution of The Wannsee Conference, a co-production from Constantin Television and ZDF.

The film centers on the events of January 20, 1942, when leading members of the Nazi regime came together in a villa on the Großer Wannsee in Berlin. Organized by Reinhard Heydrich, the sole topic on the agenda for the gathering was what the Nazis called the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”—the systematic mass murder of millions of Jewish people across Europe.

The Wannsee Conference follows the minutes from the meeting recorded by Adolf Eichmann. Directed by Matti Geschonneck, the movie stars Johannes Allmayer, Maximilian Brückner, Godehard Giese, Philipp Hochmair, Arnd Klawitter, Thomas Loibl, Sascha Nathan and Rafael Stachowiak.

Oliver Berben, deputy chairman of Constantin Film, said: “How can we ensure that issues such as Nazism and the Holocaust are not forgotten by future generations and how do we remind people, now more than ever, of what can happen when we do not protect our precious democracy? This has been the driving force behind this project from the outset and remains so. It is all the more important at this moment in time that people, and in particular the younger generations, are given new opportunities to grapple with these topics and discuss them. This is precisely what this film sets out to do.”

Alexandra Heidrich, head of acquisitions and sales TV international at Global Screen, said: “Through this historically accurate treatment, which uses the original minutes of the meeting as the source material, viewers can experience a piece of contemporary history that brought unimaginable suffering to so many people and families. This chapter in German history had far-reaching consequences for Jewish people throughout Europe. The film treatment of the Wannsee Conference aims to help ensure that these atrocities are not forgotten, neither in Germany nor internationally, and that they are never repeated.”