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The Experiment
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
2001 · Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel · 120 min · Drama · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
You are invited to participate
Crew
- Written by: Mario Giordano, Don Bohlinger, Christoph Darnstädt
- Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann
- Edited by: Hans Funck
- Music: Alexander Bubenheim
- Production design: Andrea Kessler
- Produced by: Marc Conrad, Norbert Preuss, Friedrich Wildfeuer, Ulrike Leibfried
Cast
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77
- Christian Berkel as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
- Justus von Dohnányi as Berus
- Maren Eggert as Dora
- Edgar Selge as Professor Dr. Klaus Thon
- Andrea Sawatzki as Dr. Jutta Grimm
- Oliver Stokowski as Günther Schütte, Prisoner Nr. 82
- Wotan Wilke Möhring as Joe Maier, Prisoner Nr. 69
- Nicki von Tempelhoff as Kamps
- Timo Dierkes as Eckert
Production
- Country: Germany
- Language: German
- Studios: Fanes Film, Typhoon Film, Senator Film, Seven Pictures
- Box office: $13,782,896
- Themes: prison, journalist, rape, prisoner, experiment, based on novel or book, authority, prison cell, blackbox, scientific study
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