The Wave

Drama, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Dennis Gansel

Status Released

Release Date 2008-03-13

Storyline

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.

"Their teacher became their leader. His students became his soldiers."