The Wave 2008 123movies

Watch: Die Welle 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – High school teacher, Rainer Wenger, may be popular with the students, but he’s also unorthodox. He’s forced to teach autocracy for the school’s project week. He’s less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany’s past. Can Wegner and his class realize what’s happening before the horrors start repeating themselves?.
Plot: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 109,701
	67% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2878 Popularity: 18.706 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Clever, Ironic Account of Fascist Autocracy
Die Welle (The Wave) is truly a brilliant tale that lures viewers into its cleverly developed plot just as Herr Wenger lures his unsuspecting students into a sense of fascism. When Wenger, an affable schoolteacher who seems to be rebellious towards traditional instruction, gets selected to teach a class on autocracy, he is upset. However, he soon devises a plan with which to teach the students a valuable lesson on the sheer dangers of fascism and the ease with which one can be lured into it.

His class starts out simple and nonthreatening. 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”). But, this club slowly turns into a sort of fascist regime. The unsuspecting students think they are participating in some sort of fun club, but they are really being shown how easily impressionable people can be attracted by autocracy.

The biting irony of this film is that at the beginning of the autocracy class, Wenger touched on the subject of Hitler’s reign, and the students almost instinctively spit out answers about how Germany would never fall into that trap again knowing what they know now. But, the children soon eat their words when they become members of a much less disturbing, yet frighteningly similar clique.

There is a glimmer of this fact when two students who aren’t members of “The Wave” pick on a student who is. Two other members come to the rescue of the victim. Though many may view this as a positive aspect of this sort of togetherness, the point is that fascism has developed and can easily become corrupt.

I highly recommend this to any potential viewer who either holds the same views as the students at the beginning of the film or simply wants to be entertained by the ironic theme of the film (so long as you don’t mind the subtitles).

Good story, movie failed miserably
OK, it’s always difficult to watch a movie, when you know the book/story. And its more difficult with this special story, especially in Germany. Why is the book so famous here? It may have to do with the fact, that the original story demonstrates that fascism itself is not in the German genome, but could happen anywhere, even in hippie-esquire California….

Now, keeping that in mind and knowing that “Die Welle” was forced in book form upon generations of German students, what can we say about the movie? To me, the movie simply doesn’t work as a film. Once you have recognized the point (immediately, if you know the book), the movie becomes too obvious in its pedagogical agenda, the characters act way too stereotypically, the whole thing basically becomes incredible. the only things that work are the sidelines (Tim, who finds a sense in his live when everybody is made equal, the slight drama of jealousy), and, in fact, the ending. These are the only things that are not completely predictable, and that do not tend to point a finger at the audience, trying to teach them.

I don’t agree with many comments that say the movie let’s you thinking why the wave is bad, even if it has positive effects on community members at times. This is inherent to fascist communities, not to this very movie. In fact, the movie doesn’t want you to think, it’s always pointing at the bad side! Only exception here – see above: SPOILER:

In the end, you are at times really tempted to believe that the movie left the book behind (it did after all), and that Wenger (the teacher) might have gone over to really become the fascist leader he depicted before (he didn’t) END SPOILER

Anyway, if you want to see an entertaining movie about group pressure getting out of hands and going terribly astray – watch “Das Experiment” – now that’s what I call a movie!

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Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 7500000
Revenue 19000000
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Dennis Gansel
Writer Ron Jones, Johnny Dawkins, Ron Birnbach
Actors Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Country Germany, France
Awards 9 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory ARRI Film & TV, München, Germany
Film Length 2,750 m (Portugal, 35 mm), 2,930 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)