The Experiment

7.4

Germany

Drama Thriller

120 min

2001

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

Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence — a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.