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The Wave (Die Welle) Trailer (2008)

Empire has pointed out the trailer for The Wave which is not yet set to reach U.S. theaters but will be in the UK on September 19th.

When Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, finds himself relegated to teaching autocracy as part of the schools project week, hes less than enthusiastic. So are his students, who greet the prospect of studying fascism yet again with apathetic grumbling: The Nazis sucked. We get it. Struck by the teenagers complacency and unwitting arrogance, 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.

In probing the underpinnings of fascism, The Wave is far from a social-studies lesson. As with his previous film, Before the Fall, director Dennis Gansel fashions an energetic, gripping drama that cuts through superficial ideological interrogatives and goes straight for the veins--the human psychologies and individual behaviors that contribute to collective movements. In unpeeling the emotional layers and contradictions of his characters (the need to belong, to be empowered, to escape social distinctions), Gansel offers a humanistic perspective on the terrifying irony that these students may welcome the very things they denounce.

And lest we too easily dismiss this cautionary tale, its noteworthy that the true story that prompted Todd Strassers novel The Wave (from which the film was adapted) did not take place in Germany, but at a high school in Palo Alto.

Duration
0 min 55 sec

Views
59,123

Posted On
September 01, 2008
Director
Dennis Gansel

Writer
Dennis Gansel

Studio
Momentum Pictures

Release
September 19, 2008
Cast
Jürgen Vogel
Frederick Lau
Max Riemelt
Jennifer Ulrich
Trailer Tracks
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