The Wave

7.5

France

Drama Thriller

107 min

2008

Tino Mewes Dennis Gansel Hubert Mulzer Friederike Wagner Johanna Gastdorf Alexander Held Thomas Sarbacher Teresa Harder Maren Kroymann Lucas Hardt Jaime Krsto Ferkic Tommy Schwimmer Lennard Bertzbach Karoline Teska Jürgen Vogel Odine Johne Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow Max Mauff Amelie Kiefer Tim Oliver Schultz Maximilian Vollmar Jacob Matschenz Cristina do Rego Elyas M'Barek Christiane Paul Jennifer Ulrich Max Riemelt Frederick Lau

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.