The Experiment

7.4

Germany

Drama Thriller

120 min

2001

Moritz Bleibtreu Heiner Lauterbach Uwe Rohde André Jung Stephan Szasz Peter Fieseler Philipp Hochmair Lars Gärtner Antoine Monot Jr. Timo Dierkes Nicki von Tempelhoff Wotan Wilke Möhring Oliver Stokowski Andrea Sawatzki Edgar Selge Maren Eggert Justus von Dohnányi Christian Berkel Fatih Akin

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.