Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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Or, closer to home, the film does not address the subtitles of the democratic/ authoritarian balance faced by many nations today.

What The Wave generated was a major role for the great majority, who stayed quiet and just got through school. During project week at Cubberley high school in northern California in April 1967, Jones began teaching his 10th-grade class the power of discipline, drilling them to sit properly and breathe correctly.Based on the 1967 events in California, of high school teacher Ron Jones' demonstration of how the Nazi's could come to power. From the first scene on, the sympathetic guy tears the audience on his side”, [19] it was reported about Jürgen Vogel, he was transforming the moral ambiguity of his figure into a “mercurial energy”. Helmed by director Dennis Gansel, film is unforgiving in depicting the youth as a generation without anything to rebel about but loneliness, making them sensitive to any sort of illusion of belonging. It's just that once again, the final scenes of Wenger disappearing in the back of a police car raise unanswered questions of responsibility, liability, legality and ownership that the film doesn't seem all that interested in exploring, to its detriment. When the movie was released the publisher Die Broschüre provided schools with material to help teachers "to prepare the visit to the movie theater“ as well as "reviewing it afterwards“.

The change to the subjective view of the thoughtful character corresponds to the dramatic composition throughout the film. Who doesn't believe that there's strength in unity, who doesn't believe in equality, who doesn't believe in helping their fellow man? The students choose Wenger as their leader and are instructed to wear a uniform and create a name for themselves (the students choose Die Welle "The Wave").Neatly structured by days, the experiment begins with simple disciplines and grows to become an exclusive cult named "the wave" with its own uniform and salute.