The Wave

Their teacher became their leader. His students became his soldiers.

Die Welle (2008)

Timing: 1:47 (107 min)

7.495/10
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Release date

2008-03-13

Country

Germany

Production

Constantin Film, Celluloid Dreams, Rat Pack Filmproduktion, B.A. Produktion, Medienfonds GFP

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

$7 500 000

Revenue

$32 350 637

Website

http://www.welle.film.de/

Director

Dennis Gansel

Actors

Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Elyas M'Barek, Cristina do Rego, Jacob Matschenz, Maximilian Vollmar, Tim Oliver Schultz
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Scenario

Producer

Christian Becker, Nina Maag

Operator

Torsten Breuer

Composer

Heiko Maile

Artist

Audition

Franziska Aigner

Editing

Ueli Christen
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A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

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