The Wave(Movie, 2008)

Name: The Wave
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2008
Duration: T01:47:00
Rating: 3.8

Original title: "Die Welle" (German/DE)

1h 47min | Genres: Drama, Thriller

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 1,467 votes)

The Wave (German: Die Welle) is a 2008 German socio-political thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. It is based on Ron Jones' social experiment The Third Wave and Todd Strasser's novel The Wave. The film was produced by Christian Becker for Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The movie was successful in German cinemas, and 2.3 million people watched it in the first ten weeks after its release. In the film, a history teacher starts an experiment in manipulation of the masses, while trying to teach his class about autocracy. The students unwittingly start embracing fascism. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Wave

nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actor nominated for: European Film Academy Lux Award

About The Wave

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

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Trailer for The Wave + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 3:09)

Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Deutscher Trailer #2 (Trailer, DE) | Deutscher Trailer #1 (Trailer, DE) | Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.welle.film.de

Production country: Germany

Plays in: Germany

Based on the work of: Todd Strasser ("The Wave", "The Third Wave")

Made by: Constantin Film, Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Medienfonds GFP, B.A. Produktion

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: German (DE)

Translated into 29 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Esperanto (EO), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/18/2008 (World premiere: 03/11/2008)

Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Elyas M'Barek, Alexander Held, Dennis Gansel, Jacob Matschenz, Maren Kroymann, Ron Jones, Maximilian Mauff, Cristina do Rego, Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow, Amelie Kiefer, Odine Johne, Tim Oliver Schultz, Maximilian Vollmar, Tino Mewes, Lennard Bertzbach, Lucas Hardt, Johanna Gastdorf, Liv Lisa Fries, Jaime Ferkic, Teresa Harder, Karoline Teska, Hubert Mulzer, Marco Bretscher-Coschignano, Friederike Wagner, Joseph M'Barek, Natascha Paulick, Tommy Schwimmer

Director: Dennis Gansel

Producer: Christian Becker

Screenwriter: Dennis Gansel, Peter Thorwarth

Film Editor: Ueli Christen

Director of Photography: Torsten Breuer

Composer: Heiko Maile

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"A Onda"

"恶魔教室"

"Náš vůdce"

"Nas vudce"

"La ola"

"La Vague"

"Το Κύμα"

"The Wave ウェイヴ"

"Fala"

"Эксперимент 2: Волна"

"The.Wave"

Keywords: national socialism, autocracy, violence in schools, high school, homepage, group dynamics, water polo, experiment, anarchist, classroom, training, education, trainer, dictator, high school teacher, squatter

Budget: 7,500,000 USD

Revenue: 19,000,000 USD (= 253%)

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The Wave(Movie, 2008)

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