Summary
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.
Good for
- Friends night
- Teens
- Thought-provoking
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 80GoodWatch 79
Audience score91%
IMDb7.6
Letterboxd · 196 K ratings3.6/5
Box office
4.3×its budget
- Budget
- $8 M
- Worldwide
- $32 M
Worldwide it earned $25 M more than it cost.
Running time
1 h 47 min
A typical length for dramas
typical 109107Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 10 countries, rent or buy in 8 more
Released
2008
March 13, 2008
18 years ago
Genres
DramaThrillerLanguage
German
Original language
Made in
Germany
Rated
No age rating yet.
What's in it
- ViolenceModerate
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesMild
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightSolo WatchTeensThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
and 25 more32 people
- Jürgen VogelRainer Wenger
- Frederick LauTim
- Max RiemeltMarco
- Jennifer UlrichKaro
- Christiane PaulAnke Wenger
- Elyas M'BarekSinan
- Cristina do RegoLisa
- Jacob MatschenzDennis
Maximilian VollmarBomber
Tim Oliver SchultzJens
Amelie KieferMona
Max MauffKevin- FPFabian PregerKaschi
Ferdinand Schmidt-ModrowFerdi
Odine JohneMaja
Tino MewesSchädel
Karoline TeskaMiri- MBMarco Bretscher-CoschignanoDominik
Lennard BertzbachBommel
Tommy SchwimmerMaxwell- JMJoseph M'BarekThorben
Jaime Krsto FerkicBobby
Lucas HardtKulle
Maren KroymannDr. Kohlhage
Directing · 3
- Dennis Gansel Director, Screenplay
- Hendrik Holler First Assistant Director, Second Unit Director
- Jan Birka Continuity
Writing · 4
- Peter Thorwarth Screenplay
- Todd Strasser Novel
- Ron Jones Idea
- Johnny Dawkins Original Film Writer
Production · 7
- Nina Maag Executive Producer
- Christian Becker Producer
- Franziska Aigner Casting
- David Groenewold Co-Producer
- Antonio Exacoustos Co-Producer
- Martin Moszkowicz Co-Producer
Camera · 2
- Torsten Breuer Director of Photography
- Conny Klein Still Photographer
Editing · 1
- Ueli Christen Editor
Sound · 5
- Heiko Maile Original Music Composer
- Alexander Saal Sound Designer
- Jörn Poetzl Foley Artist
- Tomas Bastian ADR Supervisor, Dialogue Editor, ADR Editor
- Philipp Sellier Foley Recordist
Art · 2
- Knut Loewe Production Design
- Darius Ghanai Title Designer
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Ivana Milos Costume Design
Other crew · 2
- Rainer Werner Stunt Coordinator
- Dierk Beck von Rohland Post Production Supervisor
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