This made-for TV film, now out on a brilliant DVD is so important to our understanding of history that I urge all to try to see Conspiracy.
Branaugh, Tucci and Firth deliver lines that curdle the blood. Branaugh says his role as General Heidrich is the most disturbing he ever had to play. Colin Firth notes that the most terrible part is that these monstrous acts are debated with no "frothing at the mouth, which makes them all the more terrible."
Firth is pure ice here. Not the handsome, mysterious Mr. Darcy or the sensuous Valmont. He is not the lyrically loopy Edward Pettigrew of My Life So Far. Here, in this film, he is a noted and brilliant jurist who wrote the laws that separated the Jews of Germany from the "pure" Germans of Germany. He was PROUD of his laws.
Only when Heinrich, in a private conversation, mentioned that there were "plenty of meathooks available for those who did not go along with his (Heinrich's)program", did Firth's character, Dr. Stuckert, flinch.
I've never seen Colin Firth this way and I am impressed with his absolute skill as an actor. He nailed this difficult role, as did the entire cast.
A very difficult film to watch, yet a real MUST SEE.
Branaugh, Tucci and Firth deliver lines that curdle the blood. Branaugh says his role as General Heidrich is the most disturbing he ever had to play. Colin Firth notes that the most terrible part is that these monstrous acts are debated with no "frothing at the mouth, which makes them all the more terrible."
Firth is pure ice here. Not the handsome, mysterious Mr. Darcy or the sensuous Valmont. He is not the lyrically loopy Edward Pettigrew of My Life So Far. Here, in this film, he is a noted and brilliant jurist who wrote the laws that separated the Jews of Germany from the "pure" Germans of Germany. He was PROUD of his laws.
Only when Heinrich, in a private conversation, mentioned that there were "plenty of meathooks available for those who did not go along with his (Heinrich's)program", did Firth's character, Dr. Stuckert, flinch.
I've never seen Colin Firth this way and I am impressed with his absolute skill as an actor. He nailed this difficult role, as did the entire cast.
A very difficult film to watch, yet a real MUST SEE.