Die Welle
2008, 93 minutes
During a week’s workshop on ‘forms of government’, high-school teacher Rainer Wenger sets up a project to have his students personally experience what dictatorship represents. Fairly innocent concepts like group pressure and discipline soon develop into a serious movement called ‘Die Welle’. After a few days, the students begin to exclude dissenters, turn critics of ‘Die Welle’ into enemies and put an end to long-standing friendships. Criticism of ‘Die Welle’ is answered with aggression and intimidation. Conflicts accumulate, until the situation inevitably escalates.
Credits
- Themes
- Democracy and politics, Racism and/or discrimination
- Suitable for
- havo/vwo - bovenbouw
mbo - niveau 1 & 2
mbo - niveau 3 & 4 - Director
- Dennis Gansel
- Country of production
- Germany
- Type
- Fiction
- Duration
- 93 minutes
- Year
- 2008
- Age rating
- 12 angst geweld grof taalgebruik