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The Wave(Movie, 1981)

FSK: 12+ years
| 44min | Genres: Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
The WaveRating: 3.5/5 (with 4747 votes)
The Wave is a made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment put on by teacher Ron Jones to explain to his students how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It debuted October 4, 1981, and aired again almost two years later as an ABC Afterschool Special. It starred Bruce Davison as the teacher Ben Ross, a character based on Jones. ()
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About The Wave

A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 04/17/2015 (World premiere: 10/04/1981)
Director: Alex Grasshoff
Producer: Fern Field
Screenwriter: Ron Jones
Director of Photography: Hanania Baer
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Die Welle"
Keywords: experiment, teacher

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Other movies with this title: The Wave (FR, 1891), The Wave (RO, 1968), The Wave (DE, 2008), The Wave (NO, 2015), The Wave (US, 2019), The Wave (2023)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:231581, Added: 04/30/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024