Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It creates this palpable undercurrent, that even with a country that already identifies itself as guilty; it still cannot escape the possibility of anarchy. Germany as the scenery of the film was good, considering that a autocracy government existed in there (in the film the students even hates to discuss the Nazism in class). An example for this is the scene in which Karo is in the schoolhouse at night, or the scene at the end when Wenger is arrested by the police and driven away. The soundtrack of the film was released on 25 May 2008 through EMI Germany, and contains tracks by The Subways, Kilians, Johnossi, Digitalism and The Hives, as well as a cover version of the classic Ramones' track " Rock 'n' Roll High School" made for the film by the German punk band EL*KE.

Little by little, the students are swayed into doing things according to the principles the teacher has planned for them, and ultimately, they go completely berserk by wanting to adopt ideas that are exactly a challenge for a democratic society.

He chose Jürgen Vogel as the leading actor because he wanted someone he himself would have liked to have as a teacher, for Vogel brought with him real life experience and a certain kind of authority. This also includes subsidiary aspects such as the football team which was turned into a water polo team in the German version whose coach, as opposed to the original, is the teacher himself. There is also a very moving portrayal of some of the tensions produced within some of the romantic pairings as well as the extreme anguish caused in one student by his heightened susceptibility.

Well before the week is up, the "classroom experiment" takes on a life of its own, and virus-like spreads throughout the school and surrounding community, seemingly beyond Wenger's control.We lived in a tree house in the mountains [the character in the film and his pregnant wife have a houseboat], so it felt true.

I have always been very interested in this subject: The question of whether fascism could happen again, how the fascist system works, how people can be led astray. Jan Plewka wrote and recorded a song for the film, Was Dich So Verändert Hat, in both a German and English version. For a great exploration of a social experiment gone wrong, and a group as a microcosm of society, rather see The Experiment / Das Experiment. From the get go, death of a character is imminent and even with its shock value, it justifies itself as beyond a plot device.Gansel's Wave is based on teacher Ron Jones's "Third Wave" experiment, which took place at a Californian school in 1967. A chilling insight into our deepest frailties and shortcomings, and hidden evils that are part of the human condition. The entire project was jeopardized and the first film-funding agency to grant financial aid was the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

To summarize the plot, Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel) is selected in his department to teach autocracy for one week, to his disapproval. However, the experiment quickly grows out of control and develops into an exclusive cult - 'the wave' - with its own uniform and salute. Eine beachtliche Darbietung seinerseits und ein immernoch erfrischend eindrucksvoller und fesselnder Streifen. Film parallels to the effect of Third Reich within its members and climax reminds audiences of the Bruno Ganz header "Der Untergang", as it clearly parallels the extent of loyalties that may arise in such occasions.There is no easy way out of "Die Welle" and therefore it makes it interesting for all nationalities, not just Germans. A Autocracy teacher develops with his students an social experiment about how dictatorships are created and he challenges the boys and girls who said that this kind of fascist regime would be impossible to exist in the 21st century. When the conflict finally erupts into violence at an intramural water polo game, the teacher decides to break off the experiment. Show the children's reactions by all means, but at least have the courtesy to show us how these reactions came to be. Furthermore, an official novel corresponding to the movie, written by Kerstin Winter, was published.