The Experiment (2001)

03/08/2001Drama, Thriller2h
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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.

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    Moritz Bleibtreu

    Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77

  2. Cast 1

    Christian Berkel

    Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38

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    Justus von Dohnányi

    Berus

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    Maren Eggert

    Dora

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    Edgar Selge

    Professor Dr. Klaus Thon

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    Andrea Sawatzki

    Dr. Jutta Grimm

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    Oliver Stokowski

    Günther Schütte, Prisoner Nr. 82

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    Wotan Wilke Möhring

    Joe Maier, Prisoner Nr. 69

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    Nicki von Tempelhoff

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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...