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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- NiztradamusJune 20, 2025Big difference to the real story but still an awesome movie. I like the fact that they stuck to actual national socialism to emulate the rise of the third reich. It wasn't about right is authoritarian and left is liberal but actually understood the difference between authoritarianism and liberalism. Good movie
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The Wave was released on March 13, 2008.
The Wave was directed by Dennis Gansel.
The Wave has a runtime of 1h 47m.
The Wave was produced by Christian Becker.
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.
The key characters in The Wave are Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel), Tim (Frederick Lau), Marco (Max Riemelt).
The Wave is rated Not Rated.
The Wave is a Drama, Thriller film.
The Wave has an audience rating of 9.1 out of 10.
The Wave had a budget of $7.5M.
The Wave has made $32.4M at the box office.