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MOVIE · 2008

The Wave

German original · 107 min

★ 7.5 TMDB · 3,689 votes

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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Original title
Die Welle
Release date
2008-03-13
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Production countries
Germany

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