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The Experiment
Why this pick
Like The Wave, it turns a controlled social exercise into a disturbing study of obedience, group identity and how quickly ordinary people accept escalating rules.
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MOVIE2008 1h 47m DEU
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
Why this pick
A restrained, claustrophobic companion to The Wave: an academic role-play exposes how institutional power, assigned roles and peer pressure reshape behaviour.
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Class of 1984
Why this pick
It shares The Wave’s volatile classroom power dynamic and concern with youth culture, though its brisk, confrontational style is far more exploitative and violent.
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The White Ribbon
Why this pick
For The Wave’s chilling German social critique, this austere period drama traces authoritarian discipline and communal cruelty with controlled, quietly ominous precision.
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After the Dark
Why this pick
Another classroom thought experiment where a teacher’s exercise pushes students to reveal alliances, fears and moral limits; it is more stylized but similarly debate-driven.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Rainer Wenger, a high school teacher renowned for his atypical teaching methods, is given the task of leading an educational workshop on the theme of autocracy. Faced with his pupils' skepticism about the return of a totalitarian regime in Germany, he decides to organize a life-size role-playing game, subjecting the class to strict rules of discipline.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christiane Paul
Anke Wenger
Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow
Ferdi
Tino Mewes
Schädel
Marco Bretscher-Coschignano
Dominik
Maren Kroymann
Dr. Kohlhage
Teresa Harder
Karo's Mutter
Johanna Gastdorf
Tim's Mutter
Hubert Mulzer
Dieter Wieland