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7.420 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.
Cast
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77
- Christian Berkel as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
- Justus von Dohnányi as Berus
- Maren Eggert as Dora
- Edgar Selge as Professor Dr. Klaus Thon
- Andrea Sawatzki as Dr. Jutta Grimm
Themes
- prison
- journalist
- rape
- prisoner
- experiment
- based on novel or book
- authority
- prison cell
- blackbox
- scientific study
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
97,690 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
72%
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 14 wins & 14 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Written by
- Mario Giordano , Don Bohlinger, Christoper Darnstädt
- Based on
- Black Box , by Mario Giordano
- Produced by
- Marc Conrad, Norbert Preuss, Friedrich Wildfeuer
- Starring
- Moritz Bleibtreu , Justus von Dohnányi , Christian Berkel , Oliver Stokowski , Andrea Sawatzki
- Cinematography
- Rainer Klausmann
- Edited by
- Hans Funck
- Music by
- Alexander Bubenheim
- Production companies
- Fanes Film, Senator Film Produktion, Seven Pictures, Typhoon
- Distributed by
- Senator Film
- Release date
- 8 March 2001 ( 2001-03-08 )
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Box office
- US$ 11.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Das Experiment (English: The Experiment) is a 2001 German drama thriller film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and deals with a social experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment of 1971.
Plot
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