The Wave (Die Welle)
by A few years ago, a few German high school students went a bit nuts. The students had been adamant that fascism could never again take hold in Germany. So the teacher started a social experiment to prove that it could, and the students got a little caught up in it, to say the least. In reality, the whole thing was shut down before it got too out of control. This film is a fictionalised version of that out of control experiment and does an excellent job of showing, in a contemporary setting, just how easily fascism can develop support and discriminate against those involved, with even the teacher caught up by the amount of power he has over the students.
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Chad said | 19 June, 2009
I remember watching the 80’s film in class, I think it was called The Wave also.
Christiane Dorandt said | 20 June, 2009
That´s right, this experiment happened in the US and there was another movie referring to the bestseller “The Wave”, much better than the German approach I´d say, back in the 80´s. We had enough of fascism in Germany, don´t ya think?
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Keith said | 19 June, 2009
Actually this is bases on a story from the US from the early 70’s. it happened in a California school.
Check out Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(book)