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A high school teacher's experiment on totalitarianism spirals out of control.
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Germany today. During project week, high school teacher Rainer Wenger comes up with an experiment in order to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. A role-playing game with tragic results begins. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community builds into a real movement: The Wave.
"In 1967, a high school teacher from California attempted to explain to his students how the Germans in the 1930s could accept the Nazi regime. To do this, he constructed an experiment called "The Third Wave," which would demonstrate the appeal of Nazism. The project became famous in socio-politics, inspiring the book 'The Wave' and, decades later, the movie of the same name. In the cinematic version, the experiment is transplanted to Germany, giving the film even more weight to what is seen on screen. It is certainly a production that explains much of the current world."