Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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Watching the film, I understood why the students enjoyed the new system, but was also privy to the horrors that come with it. Soon, what was a simple classroom experiment grows to a social entity all it's own, with the teacher not sure if he can reverse the effects. But the fascist values imposed on them taking effect from day one, to me, appears far too unrealistic. For a great exploration of a social experiment gone wrong, and a group as a microcosm of society, rather see The Experiment / Das Experiment.

which may be a deliberate piece of irony by the film-makers- ever since at least the time of King Canute trying to "stop the waves" has been a metaphor for attempting the impossible. His film, however, was made on the premise that people felt immune to the possibility of a repetition of history as a result of the intensive study of National Socialism and its mechanisms. The result was "The Wave" a thrilling movie about the dangers of what teachers told us to do, unlearned lessons, blind faith and the excess of discipline. Jones was complimentary of the film, praising its accuracy to the real-life events (despite the changed ending) that he felt the television film and Strasser's book missed. Final Comment: What I found most strange about the movie was that none of the characters knows "The Wave", since it has been taught to death on German schools.High school teacher Rainer Wenger (played by Jürgen Vogel) is assigned a week long teaching course on autocracy.

Christiane Paul as Anke Wenger, the wife of Rainer who teaches in the same school but leaves him after seeing how much damage The Wave is affecting both the school and their students. Gansel's Wave is based on teacher Ron Jones's "Third Wave" experiment, which took place at a Californian school in 1967. The Wave is based on an experiment carried out in an American high school which saw students being taught fascist principles, and the repercussions it had outside of the class.I am deeply convinced that this character would in reality not be able to look through this scheme, but that instead she would happily participate in the group and try to advance her own position by bringing in lots of more new ideas. Der Film bringt seine Message zwar äußerst plakativ und wenig subtil herüber, doch an Eindringlichkeit verliert diese dadurch nichts. Inspired by a 1960's social experiment in California documenting how easy it is to influence individuals, film looses track in its middle section as it begins to refocus on the individual lives of the students. Reviewers have noted a similarity to American films that deal with competent teachers who evoke the capability of disadvantaged students, such as Dead Poets Society [17] or U.