The Wave

The Wave

  • Director: Dennis Gansel
  • Writer: Ron Jones,Johnny Dawkins,Ron Birnbach
  • Countries of origin: Germany, France
  • Language: German
  • Release date: May 27, 2011
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: La ola
  • "Die Welle" is a feature film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jorgen Vogel, Frederick Lau and Max Riemelt . It was released in Germany on March 13, 2008.
    The film is adapted from the German novelist Todd Strasser's novel of the same name. It tells the story of a high school teacher Reiner Wengel leading students to experience the fascist dictatorship through classroom experiments   .

    Details

    • Release date May 27, 2011
    • Filming locations Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Constantin Film, B.A. Produktion

    Box office

    Budget

    €5,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $32,350,637

    Movie reviews

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    • By Creola 2022-07-18 12:33:12

      The Wave--The Reflection On The Trend Of Totalitarianism

      After watching this film, what impressed me the most was the reflection on the trend of totalitarianism. Has totalitarianism really gone away from us? Or he is simply an important aspect of human nature, dormant in everyone's heart.

      What kind of social environment would constitute centralization? We can find the answer in the German Weimar regime after...

    • By Antone 2022-07-05 21:13:23

      Die Welle: What Exactly Is Authoritarianism?

      In May, I worked as a volunteer in the Ya'an disaster area. The volunteer organization I belong to is a typical dictatorial organization. Everything is decided by the team leader, from daily work tasks to time allocation, from when to eat to when to go to bed, from what to eat to what to drink. I can understand the necessity of this form in extraordinary times, but the interesting thing is that after a few days, the leader left the camp in a hurry, and there was no time to appoint a deputy...

    • By Pearlie 2022-04-24 07:01:08

      When a person overcomes loneliness, he can overcome fascism

      When can people overcome loneliness, when can they overcome fascism.
                                                                                      ——I. New York State Super Invincible Beautiful Girl

      At the end of 2017, I wrote a diary fragment: "Okay, good, good, if I can go back to the past, I am willing to escape all loneliness and no longer overturn the definition of happiness. I am willing to follow the steps, There is a solid class group and love, and there is a warm...

    • By Lorine 2022-04-24 07:01:08

      Devil's Classroom, Fascist Ghost

      "We thought we were superior and better than everyone else. What's more, we excluded all those who opposed us from our collective, and we hurt them. I don't know what else we could do." - Rainer Wenger

      The Wave, directed by German director Daniel Gansel, is based on real events that took place in an American high school in 1967. In order to give students a...

    • By Crawford 2022-04-23 07:02:20

      Even the waves are turbid

      I only remember one sentence from Mr. Machiavelli's words: "The future of every republic has a Caesar waiting for her." I

           watched the German movie "The Wave" yesterday and told a story related to the above thoughts. An experiment by a disgruntled political science teacher turned children who didn't believe the Nazis would resurface into "neo-Nazis" in about five days -- and the film recreated it in a stunningly realistic way The causes, manifestations and consequences of...

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    • By Cheyenne 2023-08-02 00:23:05

      It's like a political science textbook!...

    • By Sherman 2023-06-30 18:18:18

      Collectivism can easily win over people’s hearts. After all, most people are social animals who need the care of others. People who grow up in a love-deprived environment especially yearn for collectivism. People in a group can easily become violent and cold-blooded because they do not reflect their individual will and religious group. It's also a form of collectivism, but the beauty is that it points to God and God is perfectly abstract. If the collective will points to one person, the end...

    • By Madie 2023-06-27 10:05:23

      It's horrible to be brainwashed in a week. This film uses the cost of two young lives to show us how terrifying a group of two members of a fanatical group...

    • By Theron 2023-05-23 14:52:31

      From the beginning of the fuzzy teacher's personal state, I was looking forward to the ending of God, and the result was that I thought I was the end of God... According to the argumentation and thinking of this piece, it doesn't matter whether this organization has a soul or not, whether it is a sports experiment or not, and whether it is a totalitarianism or a totalitarianism. , as long as there are mindless individuals who allow themselves to be completely immersed in the collective and pay...

    • By Jean 2023-05-07 16:49:06

      Mass movements can "cure those who are seriously frustrated. Not in solving their difficulties in life, but in freeing them from their impotent egos." I think the point of this film is not entirely to warn people that Nazi ideology still exists, but to discuss all of this in a more human way and where it came...

    Movie plot

    On the campus of a middle school in a small German town, a history teacher asked a question during a lecture on dictatorship: Is dictatorship possible in contemporary society? The students scoffed at this. Next, the teacher and the students in their class did an experiment to simulate dictatorship. He named the class organization "Die Welle" and guided the students to set up a unified slogan, a consistent way of greeting, and wear the...
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    "Die Welle" through the interpretation of an exercise course, seriously and powerfully attacked the dictatorship teaching system and social atmosphere   . The "Nazi Crash Course" in the film not only shows the audience a miniature Nazi Germany, but also clearly shows how individuals are alienated by the collective. In "Die Welle", the audience can see almost all the typical elements of dictatorship: unprincipled collectivism,...
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    Movie quotes

    • Rainer Wenger: Mr. Wieland!

      Dieter Wieland: Mr. Wenger.

      Rainer Wenger: About the project week...

      Dieter Wieland: Yes, and?

      Rainer Wenger: Can we switch? I got autocracy.

      Dieter Wieland: Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

      Rainer Wenger: You know I wanted anarchy.

      Dieter Wieland: A little bit to much. The project week is about teaching the students the benefits of democracy. The making of Molotov Cocktails is a subject for chemistry. Have a nice day.

    • Dennis: What our generation lacks is a common goal that hold us together.

      Hängengebliebener: That's what it is like today. Look around you. You know what the most goggled thing is? Paris fucking Hilton!

      Dennis: [laughing] Oh, shit

      Hängengebliebener: It is true!

    • Rainer Wenger: So you don't think there could be another dictatorship in Germany?

      Jens: No, we are too enlightened now.