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A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. | »
In this German thriller, a teacher's experiment goes horribly wrong when he tries to teach his class about fascism. Rainer Werner (Jurgen Vogel) makes his students dress alike, enforces discipline and unity, and invents a code gesture that will remind many of the "Heil Hitler" salute. The students get a little too into their lesson, and the results are frightening. THE WAVE is based on a true story from California in the late 1960s, but its move to Germany turns it into a deft satire.
A high-school teacher assigned the thankless task of teaching autocracy as part of the school's project week decides to spice up his lessons by conducting a decidedly unorthodox experiment in this adaptation of the popular novel by Todd Strasser. Though his students are initially apathetic about teh prospect of being schooled in the evils of fascism yet again, the lesson soon takes an unexpected turn of events that no one in the classroom could have seen coming.
Gymnasiumleraar Rainer Wenger start, tijdens een studieweek met als onderwerp 'Staatsvormen', een project in zijn klas met de bedoeling een dictatuur voelbaar te maken. Wat vrij onschuldig begint met begrippen als groepsdruk en discipline ontwikkelt zich na enkele dagen in een serieuze beweging met als naam Die Welle. Al op de derde dag beginnen de scholieren andersdenkenden uit te sluiten en het ene na het andere conflict escaleert.
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There have been a lot of vampire movies on the market lately, but few like "We Are the Night." It's about a petty criminal named Lena ( Karoline Herfurth ) who is spotted by a beautiful, ageless vampire (a ferociously menacing Nina Hoss ) and inducted against her will into an all-girl crew of badass vamps. There's a little bit of lesbian intrigue, some smart world-building around the idea of an all-female vampire society, and an appealing blend of genres: horror, action, and even a little social commentary. The material might seem like a departure for German filmmaker Dennis Gansel , whose two previous works as a director, " Before the Fall " and " The Wave ," were both Nazi-centric stories focused around high schools. But as we discussed during our conversation, there are some very clear and very interesting thematic connections in all of Gansel's recent work. People of my generation who went to public school
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