Ron Jones was a teacher in the USA who in 1969, in an attempt to make his pupils understand how Holocaust was possible, conducted an experiment. He wrote an essay about it and author Tod Strasser later picked up the idea for the ”The Wave”, a novel that was turned into a TV film in 1981.
The story becomes even more interesting now that it is set in a present German context, where people are brought up to really understand the dangers of Nazism. A brief summary: The teacher, excellently played by Jürgen Vogel, is struggling to motivate his pupils for the school’s project week on autocracy. To make it all more vivid, he starts a process; first injecting a bit of discipline, then some feeling of community, symbols and xenophobia. It escalates, everyone is sucked in, the authoritarian teacher included – and it doesn’t end as well as in the American versions. The Wave is interesting because of its realistic scenario. Its frightening conclusion is that this might happen again.
Ola Lund Renolen
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ORIGINAL TITLE
Die Welle
ENGLISH TITLE
The Wave
SELECTION: Responsibility
COUNTRY: Germany
LANGUAGE: German
SUBTITLES: Swedish
PROD. YEAR: 2008
RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes
DIRECTOR: Dennis Gansel
WRITER: Dennis Gansel, Todd Strassel, Peter Thorwarth
PRODUCER: Nina Maag, Christian Becker
PHOTO: Torsten Breuer
PRODUCTION: Rat Pack Filmproduction GmbH, Constantin Film Produktion
CAST: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich
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