The Wave (2008)
(Die Welle)
Country: GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 107m
Director: Dennis Gansel
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul
Synopsis:
Given the unwanted assignment of Autocracy during Project Week, a political science teacher turns his class into a model dictatorship to demonstrate to his students that a return to fascism in Germany is not beyond the realms of possibility. Unhappily, he does not account for the extent to which some his charges are vessels ripe for recruitment.
Review:
Persuasive social drama, well paced and acted, its national history put to good use, though one could envisage it working equally well in any country. With that in mind, it is a matter for rejoicing that we have nice European kids to watch rather than their American counterparts, though they do seem just a little well behaved at times.
(Die Welle)
Country: GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 107m
Director: Dennis Gansel
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul
Synopsis:
Given the unwanted assignment of Autocracy during Project Week, a political science teacher turns his class into a model dictatorship to demonstrate to his students that a return to fascism in Germany is not beyond the realms of possibility. Unhappily, he does not account for the extent to which some his charges are vessels ripe for recruitment.
Review:
Persuasive social drama, well paced and acted, its national history put to good use, though one could envisage it working equally well in any country. With that in mind, it is a matter for rejoicing that we have nice European kids to watch rather than their American counterparts, though they do seem just a little well behaved at times.
(Die Welle)
Country: GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 107m
Director: Dennis Gansel
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul
Synopsis:
Given the unwanted assignment of Autocracy during Project Week, a political science teacher turns his class into a model dictatorship to demonstrate to his students that a return to fascism in Germany is not beyond the realms of possibility. Unhappily, he does not account for the extent to which some his charges are vessels ripe for recruitment.
Review:
Persuasive social drama, well paced and acted, its national history put to good use, though one could envisage it working equally well in any country. With that in mind, it is a matter for rejoicing that we have nice European kids to watch rather than their American counterparts, though they do seem just a little well behaved at times.