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Rating: 7.402/10 by 1082 users

The Experiment (2001)

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.

Directing:
  • Oliver Hirschbiegel
  • Isabel Kleefeld
  • Ulrike Hampeter
  • Heike Manzke
Writing:
  • Mario Giordano
  • Mario Giordano
  • Don Bohlinger
  • Christoph Darnstädt
Stars:
Release Date: Thu, Mar 08, 2001

Rating: 7.402/10 by 1082 users

Alternative Title:
实验 - CN
实验监狱 - CN
es[エス] - JP
El experimento (Das Experiment) - ES
엑스페리먼트 - KR
Експериментът - BG
A Experiência - BR
Eksperimentet - DK
Experiment - Ihmiskoe - FI
Το Πείραμα - GR
Эксперимент - RU
Eksperimentet - NO
Black Box - DE

Country:
Germany
Language:
Deutsch
Runtime: 02 hour 00 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $13,782,896

Plot Keyword: prison, journalist, rape, prisoner, experiment, based on novel or book, authority, prison cell, blackbox, scientific study, aggression, test person, imprisonment, manipulation, torture, humiliation, angry, absurd, dramatic, critical, antagonistic, audacious, awestruck, baffled, defiant, demeaning, earnest

Moritz Bleibtreu
Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77
Christian Berkel
Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
Edgar Selge
Professor Dr. Klaus Thon
Andrea Sawatzki
Dr. Jutta Grimm
Oliver Stokowski
Günther Schütte, Prisoner Nr. 82
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Joe Maier, Prisoner Nr. 69
Peter Fieseler
Prisoner Nr. 11
Ralf Müller
Prisoner Nr. 15
Danny Richter
Prisoner Nr. 21
Polat Dal
Prisoner Nr. 40
Stephan Szasz
Prisoner Nr. 53
Markus Rudolf
Prisoner Nr. 74
Thorsten Dersch
Prisoner Nr. 86
Sven Grefer
Prisoner Nr. 94
Heiner Lauterbach
Dennis (voice)
Fatih Akin
Cab Driver (voice)
Christiane Gerboth
Newscaster (voice)

John Chard

Berus V 77, Experiment, Das (2001), amazing experience! So it took me close on 7 years to watch it, so it took me to do a thread about my personal prison based film project on IMDb to get some prompts for this film, I'm just like Novacaine, if you give me time, I get there. Based on the real life Stanford prison experiment in 1971, Das Experiment is a fabulous construction of seams coming apart in the human psyche, the films triumph is that we are never left in any doubt that things are going to go pear shaped from the off, but the fact that it manages to bash you over the head with its bluntness to reinforce the point, is, magnificent story telling. As much as the film disturbs, it is as much an education of the human condition under trying circumstances. Moritz Bleibtreu & Justus von Dohnanyi play Tarek & Berus respectively, with both men giving superlative performances as the two lynch pins to the pic's unravelling terror. This is not merely an experiment, but a test where the results are dangerously grounded in facts, it's bleak, it's at times harsh, but it actually is essential cinema for those looking for a kicker where the boot on the foot is all too real, one that and was once worn by the man next door to you. The rating on some internet sites is a disgrace IMHO, I have drop-kicked Der Untergang over the goal posts to make this my new favourite German film. I probably shouldn't go 10/10 for the film after it has scarred me from ever listening to The Beach Boys classic "Wouldn't It Be Nice" ever again - for now that tune will never seem jolly, it will just serve as a reminder of what a brilliantly bleak film Das Experiment is. 10/10


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