Conspiracy (2001 film) Quotes

Conspiracy (2001 film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Conspiracy stopped airing in 1970.

It features Nick Gillott as producer.

Conspiracy (2001 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Conspiracy (2001 film) is 96 min. long. Conspiracy (2001 film) is distributed by HBO.

The cast includes: Brendan Coyle as Müller, Ian McNeice as Klopfer, Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich, Barnaby Kay as Lange, Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann, David Threlfall as Kritzinger, Nicholas Woodeson as Hofmann, Kevin McNally as Luther, Brian Pettifer as Dr. Alfred Meyer, Owen Teale as Dr. Roland Freisler, Jonathan Coy as Erich Neumann, Ewan Stewart as Dr. Georg Leibbrandt, Peter Sullivan as SS.Col. Eberhard 'Karl' Schöngarth, and Kevin McNally as Maid.

Conspiracy (2001 film) Quotes

David Threlfall as Kritzinger

• (David Threlfall) "Lange?"
• (Barnaby Kay) "Yes, sir?"
• (David Threlfall) "Who were those 30,000 you say you shot, when you say, YOU shot?"
• (Barnaby Kay) "In Riga, Latvia. 27,800 I have some responsibility for. And stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs. I received memos directing the, one would say "evacuation" of Jews who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. Not exactly war, is it? And gas chambers about to come?"
• (David Threlfall) "What gas chambers? Gas chambers?"
• (Barnaby Kay) "I hear rumours, yes."
• (David Threlfall) "This is more than war. Must be a different word for this."
• (Barnaby Kay) "Try "chaos"."
• (David Threlfall) "Yes. The rest is argument, the curse of my profession."
• (Barnaby Kay) "I studied law as well."
• (David Threlfall) "And how do you apply that education to what you do?"
• (Barnaby Kay) "It has made me distrustful of language. A gun means what it says."

Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich

• (Kenneth Branagh) "Well then, this is the moment to be -- practical, until such time as Germany can afford your philosophy, which is what? Hound them, impoverish them, exploit them, imprison them; just do not _kill_ them, and you are God's noblest of men. I find that, uh, truly remarkable."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "Emigration. The policy that will take the place of emigration, and we have collected enough practical experience to do it well, is evacuation."
• (Nicholas Woodeson) "Which differs from emigration in what way? Evacuation to where?"
• (Kenneth Branagh) "Let us postpone that question for a while."
• (Ian McNeice) "To hell, one hopes."
• (Barnaby Kay) "Many already have."
• (Undersecretary Martin Luther) "Do they even have a hell?"
• (Kenneth Branagh) "They do now. We provide it."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "If there are 'decent Jews' then before they are decent, and indeed after, they are Jews. No, first-degree exempted will be sterilized. No more children, and eventually no more mixed blood, once and for all. It is important to know what words mean, but it is important to remember that a thousand years from now, no matter who holds the power, history will be written in those words."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "Do we have any disputes left to face here either with my authority or with that we have agreed? General?"
• (Brendan Coyle) "Let us astonish Charles Darwin."
• (Ian McNeice) "I second the motion. It is our most important war."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "Sir?"
• (David Threlfall) "We are discussing the inevitable and bringing it about in the most practical way under one command. I have no dispute with that, I understand the realities. And indeed, count on my support."
• (Nicholas Woodeson) "With the understanding that consideration will be given to my proposal, yes. Proceed."
• (Ewan Stewart) "I defer to the SS."
• (Brian Pettifer) "If you are to do it, then force-feed it. Speed it along. Our situation, such as in Warsaw, is difficult, edging towards disastrous. Thank you."
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "-- Oh, yes. What can I say? My enthusiasm is boundless."
• (Undersecretary Martin Luther) "Obviously."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "Sorry?"
• (Undersecretary Martin Luther) "I trust my enthusiasm is clear, is apparent. Yes."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "Neumann?"
• (Jonathan Coy) "I would like to know that adequate labor will still be available --"
• (Kenneth Branagh) "On a case-by-case basis. Major Lange?"

• (Kenneth Branagh) "So to begin. We have a storage problem in Germany, with these Jews."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "We will not sterilize every Jew and wait for them to die. We will not sterilize every Jew and then exterminate the race. That's farcical. Dead men don't hump, dead women don't get pregnant. Death is the most reliable form of sterilization, put it that way."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "You have to take me up in that plane of yours sometime."
• (Peter Sullivan) "Yes, we should do that. Not right after you've eaten."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity."

• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "I find the plan unworkable. I find the plan personally insulting. I have given years to codifying the laws regarding interracial marriage. Now I'm presented with this clumsy, forgive me, unworkable structure. My work, these laws, any legal code worthy of the name, restricts the enforcers of law as well as its subjects. There are some things you cannot do."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "As you see it."
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "What I see is all I have to contribute here."

• (Kenneth Branagh) "I will not miss them."

Ian McNeice as Klopfer

• (Ian McNeice) "I take it that you do not get good food up in Krakow?"
• (Dr. Joseph Bühler) "If all of Berlin eats like you, it's no wonder we have shortages."

• (Ian McNeice) "And how is it you speak Hebrew? Or is it only Yiddish you speak?"
• (Stanley Tucci) "Well, I lived among them, I worked among them, and I picked up a few words; Jewish, Yiddish, not enough to speak. So I went in search of a rabbi; rabbi means "teacher", I came to find out; Look, may I tell you the Lord's honest truth? So many of our highest-ranking officers, whose responsibility it is to deal with the Israelites, they make no attempt to get inside the Jewish head; I went to visit this rabbi; old man, long beard; in his one-room flat. And when he saw me, his eyes grew as large as hen's eggs. I asked him to teach me his language, and he agreed, and he said that he would, but that he would charge me; of course. So, I applied to my commander for funds, and I was denied; now, I've run into this opposition all my life, so I paid my own money; very little, not much. And he taught me some vocabulary, letters of the alphabet. But looking back, I realize it was poor judgment on my part, because I could have so easily had the old man arrested; put into prison; and demanded lessons from him, in his cell, free of charge. One day, he was rounded up and shipped off because he had gone out unadvisedly. And I thought "That's so stupid -- why are they so stupid?" Didn't he know that I would have protected him? At least until my lessons were complete."

• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "Can I; can I just say one word more? In the obligation, in the obligation to maintain a lawful society --"
• (Ian McNeice) "Another lecture. Another lecture."
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "-- what we would be saying to those -- Where we depart from the legal letter in deporting a Jew married --"
• (Ian McNeice) "Good, deport them. Deport them."
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "-- to a German, a new law will be required --"
• (Ian McNeice) "Write it. Why don't you write it?"
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "Consider. Consider: the Jews are taken away. The German spouses will presumably inherit the property of the Jewish spouses, go to court, their death certificates will be applied for and what happens to your secret killings then? No matter what you call them? The secret is out, dear friends. Perhaps not inheritance; perhaps divorce, freedom to remarry. So a requisite divorce mechanism dealing with these marriages to be terminated becomes the Reich's responsibility to its German citizens."
• (Ian McNeice) "f***."
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "I AM SPEAKING."

• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "Did you ask him?"
• (Ian McNeice) "Ask him what?"
• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "Does he have little Jewish blood?"
• (Ian McNeice) "No. Not yet."
• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "Inform me when he answers."
• (Ian McNeice) "That's what I heard. Grandmother or a grandfather?"
• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "His father. That is the rumor. And if it is true, how happy would he be to tell you?"

• (Ian McNeice) "You certainly know how to throw a party."
• (Stanley Tucci) "Thank you."
• (Ian McNeice) "Shalom."

Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann

• (Stanley Tucci) "And the; carbon monoxide, what it does is -- The bodies come out pink. The gas turns them pink."
• (Peter Sullivan) "That's a nice touch."
• (Dr. Joseph Bühler) "If it is already built, what is this meeting? Why bother?"
• (Kenneth Branagh) "The system has shown that it works. It will work for you. It is settling in. The method is now defined."
• (Owen Teale) "The Jews go in red and come out pink. That is progress."

• (Stanley Tucci) "Smile. It is a fine day."
• (Kevin McNally) "Yes sir."

• (Stanley Tucci) "Now, last summer Reichsführer Himmler asked me to visit a camp up in Upper Silesia, called Auschwitz, which is very well isolated, and close to significant rail access. And we are turning that camp into a major center, solid structures (and here's where your Jewish labor comes into play, Herr Neumann, the Jews haul the bricks and they build the buildings themselves). And when the structures are complete, we expect to be able to process 2500 -- an hour. Not a day, an hour."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "And those numbers look a lot better."
• (Kevin McNally) "2500 an hour?"
• (Nicholas Woodeson) "2500?"
• (Stanley Tucci) "At 24 hours a day, that is 60,000."
• (David Threlfall) "60,000 each day --"
• (Stanley Tucci) "That's 21,900,000 Jews a year, if ever there were that many."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "And we are also constructing the means of disposal, which will obviously depend upon the process of combustion."
• (Stanley Tucci) "Yes, it'll be industrial in nature: large commercial gas-fed ovens, no residue to speak of."
• (Brendan Coyle) "60,000 Jews every day go up in smoke."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "We can achieve that. Imagine."

• (Stanley Tucci) "Does it tear your heart out?"
• (Supervising Butler) "Beautiful, sir."
• (Stanley Tucci) "I have never understood the passion for Schubert's sentimental Viennese s***."

• (Stanley Tucci) "How many rolls?"
• (Stenographer) "Enough for four hours, sir."
• (Stanley Tucci) "Too many. Two hours worth should be sufficient."

• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "Are they underway?"
• (Stanley Tucci) "Not yet Sir."
• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "Who is late?"
• (Owen Teale) "We are."
• (SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller) "Who is missing?"
• (Stanley Tucci) "General Heydrich, Sir. But he's on his way."
• (Owen Teale) "He will have his grand entrance."

• (Stanley Tucci) "This meeting is not taking place. You will take no calls for anyone at this meeting. Unless the Führer calls. And he won't."

Jonathan Coy as Erich Neumann

• (Jonathan Coy) "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan."
• (Undersecretary Martin Luther) "For Goering?"
• (Jonathan Coy) "For Reichsmarshal Goering, yes, his office. And you, sir?"
• (Undersecretary Martin Luther) "Luther, and what is your plan? Where will we be in four years, do you think? Living in the White House?"

• (Jonathan Coy) "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four Year Plan."

• (Jonathan Coy) "I've done the arithmetic. The real size of the labor force is already a million less than the figures show."
• (Ewan Stewart) "The economic considerations are not the only considerations, you see."
• (Jonathan Coy) "I'll say they're not. Have you done the extrapolations?"
• (Ewan Stewart) "My friend, with due respect, may I say, "f*** the extrapolations?""

• (Undersecretary Martin Luther) "Sir, this is Neumann of the Four Year Plan, a close associate of Reichsmarschall Goering. Neumann, I introduce Dr. Klopfer, a close associate of the Brown Eminence."
• (Jonathan Coy) "Brown -- excuse me?"
• (Ian McNeice) "I represent Martin Bormann, the Party Chairman of the Thousand Year Plan."

Brendan Coyle as Müller

• (Brendan Coyle) "Perhaps the judge has a special love for them?"
• (Ian McNeice) "Yes, yes a special love for them -- very good --"
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "For whom? For Jews? Wonderful, you don't have my credentials. Forgive me, from your uniform I can infer that you're shallow, ignorant and naive about the Jews. Your line, what the party rants on about is how inferior they are, some-some-some sub-species, and I keep saying how wrong that is. They are sublimely clever. And they are intelligent as well. My indictments to that race are stronger and heavier because they are real, not uneducated ideology. They are arrogant and self-obsessed and calculating and reject the Christ and I will not have them pollute German blood."
• (General Reinhard Heydrich) "Please, Doctor --"
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "He doesn't understand. And neither do his people. Deal with the reality of the Jew and the world will applaud us. Treat them as imaginary phantoms, evil in human fantasies, and the world would have justified contempt for us. To kill them casually without regard for the law martyrs them, which will be their victory. Sterilization recognizes them as a part of our species but prevents them from being a part of our race. They'll disappear soon enough. And we will have acted in defense of our race and of our species and by the law. This fellow mentioned the law for the protection of German blood, I wrote that law. When you have my credentials then we'll talk about who loves the Jews and who hates them. Pigs don't know how to hate. I know, too, that when it comes to the half-mixed, that to kill them abandons that half of their blood which is German."
• (Ian McNeice) "I'll remember you."
• (Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart) "You should. I'm very well known."

• (Brendan Coyle) "Have you ever seen an animal with two heads? They do not live. You want to see Bormann and Goering fight it out?"

Brian Pettifer as Dr. Alfred Meyer

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Ewan Stewart as Dr. Georg Leibbrandt

• (General Reinhard Heydrich) "Estonia, not a one."
• (Ewan Stewart) "The very best thing I've ever heard about Estonia."

Barnaby Kay as Lange

• (Barnaby Kay) "I have the real feeling I "evacuated" 30,000 Jews already, by shooting them, at Riga. Is what I did "evacuation"? When they fell, were they "evacuated"? There are another 20,000, at least, waiting for similar "evacuation".; I just think it is helpful to know what words mean -- with all respect."
• (Stanley Tucci) "If I might, I think it's unnecessary to burden the record --"
• (Kenneth Branagh) "Yes. In my personal opinion, they are evacuated."
• (David Threlfall) "Explain."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "I have just done so."
• (David Threlfall) "That is not; no, that is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told. I have directly been assured; I have; that; purge the Jews, yes, but to annihilate them; that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe; that possibility has personally been denied, to me, by the Führer."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "And it will continue to be."

• (Barnaby Kay) "Yes."
• (Dr. Joseph Bühler) "I would like to urge that speed that Dr. Meyer asked of you. The Poles are not as disciplined a population as we Germans. And I will report our will of the group to the Governor General."
• (Kenneth Branagh) "He will understand that I'm relieving him of a burden. Colonel?"
• (Peter Sullivan) "I thoroughly approve and I'm anxious to start. I look forward to working with your office, and yours, Colonel."
• (Owen Teale) "The sooner, the better."

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