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Mood:
- BleakDisturbingRoughSuspensefulCaptivatingTenseThought Provoking
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- Human NaturePsychologicalExperiment Gone AwryPrison LifeConfinedMind and SoulRivalryPower Relations more...
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- DramaThrillerForeign
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- GermanyPrison
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- Based on BookBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealistic
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- NudityProfanityStrong Violent Content
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The Experiment, 2001
German
Germany
Profile of The Experiment
The mood of The Experiment is disturbing, bleak, and tense. The plot centers around prison life, an experiment gone awry, and human nature. It is a drama, foreign, and thriller movie. In approach, The Experiment is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a prison. The setting is Germany. The Experiment happens in contemporary times. It is originally a true story and based on a book. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that The Experiment includes , nudity, and profanity.
Summary of The Experiment
Based on the 1971 Stanford University simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment (otherwise know as the Stanford Prison Experiment), DAS EXPERIMENT is an intense psychodrama about a group of ordinary men who volunteer to take place in a paid two-week study on the mental effects of prison life. Following a series of intellectual and physical examinations, the men are separated into two groups--eight guards and twelve prisoners--and locked into a working prison, fully loaded with cameras to capture their every move. One of the prisoners, an undercover reporter named Tarek (Moritz Leibtrau of RUN LOLA RUN), uses every opportunity to provoke the guards and collect quotes for his story, but he consistently pushes the envelope too far. As egos are bruised and machismo is belittled, the guards resort to sadistic torture techniques while the prisoners formulate an escape scheme that is laden with vengeance. The experiment inevitably goes awry (even the moderators have utterly lost control) leading to a powerful climatic battle between good and evil.
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel keeps the film moving at a fast clip, effortlessly switching from the film to the prison cameras and even to a pair of 007-esque spy glasses worn by Tarek to reveal different angles of observation and offer the viewer a voyeuristic experience. DAS EXPERIMENT is an extreme thriller steeped in ultra-violence, murder, and suspense.
Details
| Language: | German |
| Country: | Germany |
| Release date: | 25 May 2002 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
Cast and Crew
as Tarek Fahd - Häftling Nr. 77 / Prisoner #77
as Steinhoff - Häftling Nr. 38 / Prisoner #38
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Critics Reviews
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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- by: Ray Conlogue
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Jonathan Curiel
Users Reviews
- 30.December.2009
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- by: samura
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