The Wave (Die Welle) - 2008

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Cast
Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich,
Christiane Paul, Jacob Matschenz, Cristina do Rego, Elyas M'Barek, Maximilian Vollmar, Max Mauff, Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow,
Tim Oliver Schultz, Amelie Kiefer, Fabian Preger, Odine Johne,
Tino Mewes.


The Film

After his successful elite Nazi boarding school tale Napola (Before the Fall), German director Dennis Gansel returns to the subject of National Socialism in a school setting in his new film Die Welle (The Wave). The film, set in contemporary Germany, is based on a Todd Strasser novel and a 1981 US TV film that were in turn inspired by real events that took place at a high school in Palo Alto, California in April 1967. At the school, a contemporary history teacher involved his sophomore students in an experiment he called The Third Wave, aiming to explain how millions of Germans let the Nazis get away with what they did. The experiment finally got of hand and had to be stopped.

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Trailer(s)

FLV International Trailer (7.1Mb)

QT Teaser German HD 1080p ZIP (96.0Mb)
FLV Teaser (6.7Mb)

QT German Trailer 480x360 (9.4Mb)
FLV German Trailer (13.4Mb)