Movie · 2008
The Wave
107 min · Drama, Thriller · Released
Composite
9.7
IMDb
7.6 / 10
122,936 votes
TMDB
7.5 / 10
3,701 votes
Local
— / 10
No votes
Synopsis
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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Cast
Jürgen Vogel
Rainer Wenger
Frederick Lau
Tim
Max Riemelt
Marco
Jennifer Ulrich
Karo
Christiane Paul
Anke Wenger
Elyas M'Barek
Sinan
Cristina do Rego
Lisa
Jacob Matschenz
Dennis
Maximilian Vollmar
Bomber
Tim Oliver Schultz
Jens
Amelie Kiefer
Mona
Max Mauff
Kevin
Fabian Preger
Kaschi
Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow
Ferdi
Odine Johne
Maja
Tino Mewes
Schädel
Karoline Teska
Miri
Marco Bretscher-Coschignano
Dominik
Lennard Bertzbach
Bommel
Tommy Schwimmer
Maxwell
Crew
Art
- Knut Loewe Production Design
- Darius Ghanai Title Designer
Camera
- Torsten Breuer Director of Photography
- Conny Klein Still Photographer
Costume & Make-Up
- Ivana Milos Costume Design
Crew
- Dierk Beck von Rohland Post Production Supervisor
- Rainer Werner Stunt Coordinator
Directing
- Dennis Gansel Director
- Jan Birka Continuity
- Hendrik Holler First Assistant Director
- Hendrik Holler Second Unit Director
Editing
- Ueli Christen Editor
Production
- Christian Becker Producer
- Nina Maag Executive Producer
- Ulrike Fauth Production Manager
- Martin Moszkowicz Co-Producer
- Antonio Exacoustos Co-Producer
- David Groenewold Co-Producer
- Franziska Aigner Casting
Sound
- Heiko Maile Original Music Composer
- Alexander Saal Sound Designer
- Tomas Bastian ADR Supervisor
- Philipp Sellier Foley Recordist
- Tomas Bastian ADR Editor
- Jörn Poetzl Foley Artist
- Tomas Bastian Dialogue Editor
Writing
- Peter Thorwarth Screenplay
- Dennis Gansel Screenplay
- Johnny Dawkins Original Film Writer
- Ron Jones Idea
- Todd Strasser Novel
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