Conspiracy brought a new meaning to the phrase "power lunch". Set in January 1942 just outside Berlin a meeting on the Final Solution took place. The way the meeting was organised , and the preparations made for the participants at this meeting was disturbing yet brilliant. Meticulous and efficient and it somehow prepared the viewer for the tone and planning for what was about to take shape. When the waiter smashed the plates , you could sense that no hindrance or opposition would be countenanced as the waiter and later two participants at the meeting would find to their cost.
The acting from all quarters was brilliant. Kenneth Branagh , Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci walked away with the accolades in this film, but not to put their brilliance aside, a special mention for Barnaby Kay ( Rudolf Lange )should be noted. The way Lange behaved in the meeting , with courtesy and culture , yet somehow this man was commiting mass murder on what was then an unknown scale. A man who distrusted words. Yet he managed to come to terms with this butchery by the reassurance of Kenneth Branagh's Heydrich..."We are but servant-soldiers ". When pressed for a political opinion , Lange without shame betrayed his own sense of compassion and intelligence. Barnaby Kay played this character with depth. All I can say, is that the actor must've had an awful lot of sleepless nights playing Rudolf Lange.
Conspiracy has now been played by the BBC every year since the Commemoration of the Holocaust. I can only hope that they will continue this tradition , and to serve as a warning and reminder of what the State , fascism and totalitarianism is capable of.
A brilliant yet disturbing film , but I would recommend this piece of work to anyone who is ignorant of the holocaust or has an interest in history.
The acting from all quarters was brilliant. Kenneth Branagh , Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci walked away with the accolades in this film, but not to put their brilliance aside, a special mention for Barnaby Kay ( Rudolf Lange )should be noted. The way Lange behaved in the meeting , with courtesy and culture , yet somehow this man was commiting mass murder on what was then an unknown scale. A man who distrusted words. Yet he managed to come to terms with this butchery by the reassurance of Kenneth Branagh's Heydrich..."We are but servant-soldiers ". When pressed for a political opinion , Lange without shame betrayed his own sense of compassion and intelligence. Barnaby Kay played this character with depth. All I can say, is that the actor must've had an awful lot of sleepless nights playing Rudolf Lange.
Conspiracy has now been played by the BBC every year since the Commemoration of the Holocaust. I can only hope that they will continue this tradition , and to serve as a warning and reminder of what the State , fascism and totalitarianism is capable of.
A brilliant yet disturbing film , but I would recommend this piece of work to anyone who is ignorant of the holocaust or has an interest in history.