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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.
- Director
- Dennis Gansel
- Writer
- Dennis Gansel · Peter Thorwarth
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- Release date
- 2008 · Released
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Genres
- Drama · Teen · Political Thriller
- Also known as
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- Español
- La ola
- Français
- La Vague
- Italiano
- L'onda
- 日本語
- THE WAVE ウェイヴ
- 한국어
- 디 벨레
- Polski
- Fala
- Português
- A Onda
- Themes
- authoritarianism ↗ Nazism ↗
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