During a history-themed week, professor Rainer Weger has to teach his class the meaning and implications of autocracy. Even if he'd have preferred to talk about anarchism, he starts a social experiment with his students: they don't think it's possible that something like Nazism could ever happen in Germany nowadays, so Weger dares them and starts to make them call him Her Weger, he abolishes grades and social differences by making them wear a uniform and comes up with a name "The Wave" (Die Welle) and a signal for the students to recognize who's part of this movement.
Things quickly start to run out of hands: the students isolate who doesn't think like them or is publicly against the movement, which leads to the raising of a parallel-group that tries to contrast them and that's when violent episodes start to happen...
Weger calls in for a reunion and explains to the students that's exactly what happened with Nazism and he tries to put an end to the Wave, but that will just lead to the unpredictable reaction of one student, who was an outcast and found his reason to live when he joined the party...
My Opinion👍👎
It's disturbing how actual this topic is and you'll watch this movie with increasing horrified surprise, making comparisons to the early phases of Nazism.
Movies like this and 'Look Who's Back' (my book review HERE) are fantastic examples of how easy is for history to repeat itself and how careful we all need to be!
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