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The Wave (2008)
Directed by Dennis Gansel
“Their teacher became their leader. His students became his soldiers.”
Drama, Thriller · 1h 47m
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.
Cast
Jürgen Vogel
Frederick Lau
Max Riemelt
Jennifer Ulrich
Christiane Paul
Elyas M'Barek
Cristina do Rego
Jacob Matschenz
Maximilian Vollmar
Tim Oliver Schultz
Amelie Kiefer
Max Mauff
Crew
- Director
- Dennis Gansel
- Screenplay
- Peter Thorwarth, Dennis Gansel
- Novel
- Todd Strasser
- Director of Photography
- Torsten Breuer
- Original Music Composer
- Heiko Maile
- Editor
- Ueli Christen
- Producer
- Christian Becker
Details
- Original title
- Die Welle
- Release date
- 2008-03-13
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Rat Pack Filmproduktion, B.A. Produktion, Constantin Film, Celluloid Dreams
- Budget
- $7,500,000
- Box office
- $32,350,637