TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kay, Alex James
T1  - Speaking the Unspeakable
BT  - The Portrayal of the Wannsee Conference in the Film Conspiracy
JF  - Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
N2  - This article discusses the filmic representation of the infamous Wannsee Conference, when fifteen senior German officials met at a villa on the shore of a Berlin lake to discuss and co-ordinate the
implementation of the so-called final solution to the Jewish question. The understanding reached during the course of the ninety-minute meeting cleared the way for the Europe-wide killing of six million Jews. The article sets out to answer the principal challenge facing
anyone attempting to recreate the Wannsee Conference on film: what was the atmosphere of this conference and the attitude of the participants? Moreover, it discusses various ethical aspects related to the portrayal of evil, not in actions but in words, using the medium of film. In doing so, it focuses on the BBC/HBO television film Conspiracy (2001), directed by Frank Pierson, probing its historical accuracy and discussing its artistic credibility.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2019.1637492
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
SP  - 187
EP  - 200
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
ER  -