The Experiment

The Experiment

  • Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
  • Writer: Mario Giordano,Christoph Darnstädt,Don Bohlinger
  • Countries of origin: Germany
  • Language: German, English
  • Release date: March 8, 2001
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Das Experiment
  • "Das Experiment" is a Feature film directed by Oliver Sisberg and starring Moritz Brado and Christine Burke . The story is adapted from the novel "Black Box" published by Mario Giordano in 1999, and the novel is based on the 1971 The United States of America Stanford University prison experiment.
    The film introduces the taxi driver Tarek Fader seeing an advertisement in the newspaper for recruiting psychological experiment subjects to apply for employment. He is divided into two groups with 19 other male applicants of all walks of life and age. Play as twelve prisoners and eight prison guards in a two-week simulated prison experiment. 

    Details

    • Release date March 8, 2001
    • Filming locations University of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies Typhoon, Fanes Film, Senator Film Produktion

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $144,634

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $19,857

    Gross worldwide

    $13,782,896

    Movie reviews

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    • By Giles 2022-07-18 12:30:58

      The Experiment--Human Nature And Independent Spirit

      Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mockery, their passions a quotation. " --Oscar Wilde

      The Stanford Prison Experiment is based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment." Philip Zimbardo, one of the most authoritative psychologists in the United States, led the experiment: a number of...

    • By Pasquale 2022-04-23 07:02:12

      Police and Prisoners - The Birth of Centralization

      When we join a discussion that has already formed, it is often necessary to say which side we are in favor of. And forget whether the foundation of these thesis itself is stable and whether it is contrary to the universal value of human beings. "Death Experiment" provides us with an experiment, where the evil side of human nature is unscrupulously revealed. See how this ghost power system was born?
           Governing others is a science. 1. The leader appears. As an ordinary person, in real...

    • By Alexandrine 2022-04-23 07:02:12

      Are humans better evolved than monkeys?

      The Death Experiment is based on the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. "We are all strangers with very different living environments." It is true that the subjects have different personalities, different experiences, and different beliefs, but they are not the bad people we call them, but the changes in the environment make them from Angel falls to Satan. When the "guards" put on their uniforms and the "prisoners" put on their prison uniforms, the real prison life begins, they are no longer...

    • By Winnifred 2022-04-23 07:02:12

      understand psychology

      It was so scary, my hands and feet were cold and shivering after watching it. Humans are selfish and greedy animals, and they use systems to eliminate human desires. If people are too free, at least without inner moral restraint, they will not be able to form a circle. Compared with the German version, the American version has no interspersed experimenters, and lacks excessive and idle monotony. Although it is intuitive, the effect is still good in Germany. Including thoughts and some details....

    • By Letha 2022-04-23 07:02:12

      Those tacit rights and rights... When you were weak, you thought that I could stand in your position

      Role cognition and order anomie This film review is well written and


      established a hierarchical social order. What level are you in? We are often used to the behavioral norms corresponding to such levels.
       Therefore, the division of labor in society is probably the role cognition order norms. It is destined to be a corrupt official. If you get used to setting yourself as a prisoner, then accept the weak

      . From a social point of view, this movie makes people panic....

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    • By Irving 2023-08-27 11:16:32

      Identity, role shaping people. The accomplishments that we need in ourselves will be met through the right conditions. The love scene is so weak. But in this movie, it is love that saves the male protagonist who has slipped into the...

    • By Jason 2023-06-10 18:41:50

      Having been exposed to the Stanford Prison Experiment in the classroom, what I get from the experiment and the movie is that once a person gets a sudden "role", he can quickly enter the play, accept the setting and enter the role, which is caused by certain external factors. out of control. So the reason why you play off, first of all four words - too deep into the play. However, the work is still a work, it is still exaggerated, after all, it has to show a sense of tension and...

    • By Hubert 2023-05-24 16:43:28

      When the law is weak and the supremacy in the given space is obtained, the normally suppressed human nature begins to be...

    • By Troy 2023-04-21 13:02:27

      The male protagonist's death (contempt, confrontation with authority) is the driving force of the whole plot, which accelerates the evolution of the experiment, but the resulting dramatic tension is more contrived. This kind of plot arrangement has led to the film's poor interpretation of the themes of "human beings in the system and in the situation" "fake dramas are real" and "too deep into the drama". "The Tide" does a much better job of showing the step-by-step change in human...

    • By Leif 2023-04-12 14:26:04

      The film is based on the 1971 American "Stanford Prison Experiment" and adapted from Mario Jordanou's novel "Black Box". The essence of human nature cannot be simply distinguished by good and evil. Under certain conditions, it will arouse the evil side that you can't even think of, especially when you have power in your hands. In many cases, conflicts cannot be stopped by human beings. Human nature is complex, and experiments cannot afford it. (The hero's one-night stand girlfriend is a bit...

    Movie plot

    The protagonist works as a taxi driver, and by chance, he saw the psychological experiment job advertisement in the newspaper and went to apply for the job. Afterwards, the actor and the other 19 people were selected as experimental subjects. Eight of them were selected as jailers and the remaining 12 were prisoners. As long as the two-week experiment is completed, each person can receive 4,000 marks as a reward. Anyone who uses force...
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    Between rules and human behavior, good rules will allow people to engage in good behavior; bad rules will provide a platform for personal evil behavior; when an anti-natural law rule controls people’s behavior, it will inevitably cause The intensification of the contradiction was eventually overthrown, just as the "prisoner" attacked the "prison guard" at the end of this movie. A deeper reflection is the relationship between system and...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Tarek Fahd, Häftling Nr. 77: [voiceover, reading newspaper ad] Test subjects wanted. Earn 4000 marks for a 14-day experiment in a simulated prison.

    • [last lines]

      Nachrichtensprecher: [voiceover - spoiler] The tragic outcome: two dead, three injured, among them project leader Professor Klaus Thon. Clearly, the experiment went out of control after two days. The district attorney is investigating two possible manslaughter charges and several charges of abuse and negligence. One of the test participants has been arrested. The project direction will probably have to answer to a court. According to statements by one of the scientists, the escalation might have been prevented by aborting the experiment earlier.

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