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Das Experiment is a 2001 German thriller, drama, psychological thriller and prison film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with a screenplay by Mario Giordano based on the Stanford prison experiment. Made in German, it stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski and Wotan Wilke Möhring, and concerns aggression, power and violence. Rainer Klausmann served as director of photography.
Filmed in Germany and Cologne, and produced by Wild Bunch, the film runs 120 minutes, is rated R, and earned revenue of $13,782,896. It took part in the 14th European Film Awards, where it was nominated for Best Film, and was also nominated for the Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor. A derivative work is titled The Experiment.
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7.420 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
Cast
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77
- Christian Berkel as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
- Justus von Dohnányi as Berus
- Maren Eggert as Dora
- Edgar Selge as Professor Dr. Klaus Thon
- Andrea Sawatzki as Dr. Jutta Grimm
Themes
- prison
- journalist
- rape
- prisoner
- experiment
- based on novel or book
- authority
- prison cell
- blackbox
- scientific study
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
97,690 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
72%
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 14 wins & 14 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Written by
- Mario Giordano , Don Bohlinger, Christoper Darnstädt
- Based on
- Black Box , by Mario Giordano
- Produced by
- Marc Conrad, Norbert Preuss, Friedrich Wildfeuer
- Starring
- Moritz Bleibtreu , Justus von Dohnányi , Christian Berkel , Oliver Stokowski , Andrea Sawatzki
- Cinematography
- Rainer Klausmann
- Edited by
- Hans Funck
- Music by
- Alexander Bubenheim
- Production companies
- Fanes Film, Senator Film Produktion, Seven Pictures, Typhoon
- Distributed by
- Senator Film
- Release date
- 8 March 2001 ( 2001-03-08 )
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Box office
- US$ 11.6 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 14th European Film Awards
- Genre
- prison film
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Original language
- German
- Based on
- Stanford prison experiment
- Main subject
- violence
- Director
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Screenwriter
- Mario Giordano
- Cast member
- Fatih Akin
- Cinematographer
- Rainer Klausmann
- Narrative location
- Germany
- Filming location
- Cologne
- Duration
- 119
- FilmAffinity ID
- 156441
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 2001-03-08
- title
- Das Experiment
- derivative work
- The Experiment
- inspired by
- Stanford prison experiment
- review score
- 59/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Das Experiment (English: The Experiment) is a 2001 German drama thriller film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and deals with a social experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment of 1971.
Plot
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