The Foyle Film Festival - The wave (Die Welle)

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When Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, finds himself relegated to teaching autocracy as part of the schools project week, he is less than enthusiastic. So are his students, who greet the prospect of studying facism yet again with apathetic grumbling, Rainer devises an unorthodox experiment. But his hastily- conceived lesson in social orders and the power of unity soon grows a life of its own. As with his previous film (Before The Fall), director Gansel fashions an energetic, gripping drama that exposes the human psychologies and individual behaviours that contribute to collective movements and lest we too easily dismiss Strassers novel "The Wave" (from which the film was adapted) did not take place in Germany but at a high school in California!