THE WAVES
Germany today. During the week the project, high school teacher Rainer Wenger came up with an experiment to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. A role-playing game with tragic results begins. In a few days, what began as a dangerous idea, like discipline and community, building a real movement: The Wave. On the third day, the students start ostracizing and threatening ...
Genre: Art / Foreign, Drama and Adaptation
Duration: 1 hour. 47 min.
Release Date: June 9, 2011 (limited)
By Jeannette CATSOULIS
Published: May 26, 2011
Directed by Dennis Gansel; written by Mr. Gansel and Peter Thorwarth, based on a short story by William Jones and Ron "The Wave" teleplay by Johnny Dawkins and Ron Birnbach, director of photography, Torsten Breuer; edited by Ueli Christen; production design by Knut Loewe; costumes by Ivana Milos; produced by Christian Becker; released by IFC Films. On the run again Gastropub Theater, 147 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. In German, with English subtitles.
Plot
A cautionary tale about the roots of the charismatic teacher Rainer Wegner fasisme.Seorang earlier in the week long class on autocracy. For indifferent student, a hard sell, but Wegner got the idea for the experiment: as their leader, he asked students to call him Mr. Wegner, enforce discipline, creating logos, decided that everyone was wearing a white shirt, and the name of the group,
Based on the famous teaching experiment 1967 in California conducted by Ron Jones (who served as a consultant on the film), transplant it into action didactic drama of modern Germany, where Rainer (Jürgen Vogel), a hip high school teacher, tried to convey the points of autocracy. In a few days, what began as a dangerous idea, like discipline and community, building a real movement: The Wave. On the third day, the students start ostracizing and threatening others. When the conflict finally erupted into violence in intramural water polo match, the teacher decided to decided to experiment. But it was too late. Waves are outside kendali.Seperti telegram by his T shirt Ramones, Rainer is not the kind of-book-guy. (She really wanted the class anarchy.) To spice things, he changed his classroom into a mini-dictatorship, complete with gym, uniforms, logos sweet and respectful rather dirty.
Before you can say "! Heil, Rainer," an experiment for a week has expanded beyond the classroom, and children - apart from a few isolated holdouts rapidly - who recruit new members and local punk evenly.
WITH: Jürgen Vogel (Wenger Rainer), Frederick Lau (Tim), Max Riemelt (Marco), Jennifer Ulrich (Karo), Christiane Paul (Anke Wenger), Elyas M'Barek (Sinan) and Cristina Do Rego (Lisa).
Trailer for the film The Wave by Dennis Gansel. THE WAVES is based on real events from a California high school in 1967.
