german film... anyone seen it? is it any good?

i've seen it. It's brilliant

its been shown for 1 week in the midlands, on one screen, at one cinema - the big fucker on broad street in Brum, at 11:50pm each night. Its a fucking joke - not even the arthouse cinema's show stuff like this anymore; I missed the Lou Reed film entirely because Batman was on and now ive missed this because of Tropic Thunder and some other shite. Although Tropic Thunder was quite good.

What's it about?

from IMDB:

"When Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, finds himself relegated to teaching autocracy as part of the schools project week, hes less than enthusiastic. So are his students, who greet the prospect of studying fascism yet again with apathetic grumbling: The Nazis sucked. We get it. Struck by the teenagers complacency and unwitting arrogance, Rainer devises an unorthodox experiment. But his hastily conceived lesson in social orders and the power of unity soon grows a life of its own.

In probing the underpinnings of fascism, The Wave is far from a social-studies lesson. As with his previous film, Before the Fall, director Dennis Gansel fashions an energetic, gripping drama that cuts through superficial ideological interrogatives and goes straight for the veins--the human psychologies and individual behaviors that contribute to collective movements. In unpeeling the emotional layers and contradictions of his characters (the need to belong, to be empowered, to escape social distinctions), Gansel offers a humanistic perspective on the terrifying irony that these students may welcome the very things they denounce."


Its based on a true story, a teacher in California in the 60's did it

I still have no idea what it's about.

My cinema used to be really good but has now gone shit. They didn't even have the Romanian abortion movie :(

it would have only made you weep, love.

In Germany they have a week in every school year called "Project Week." In one project they set up a fascist club and the film is about that. You egt to see how fascism can take off, even with nice people. It's really good ketkin

good enough for you to take me to see it?
I can't raise this child alone.

I've already see it. You go, I'll pay for the bus. I'll get the lads round for football and WKD

My mother was right about you.

Mums are always right

I saw it. It's fucking brilliant.

I thought this was a parody thread for the wire. Might check this film out though.

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i really want to see it, there are loads of torrents on isohunt, but i dont know if any of them have english subtitles or not.

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it really was amazing, go and see it. It's one of the best films I've seen this year. It's allegorical, but not in an annoying, preachy way. After watching it you're not left hating autocracy (or nazism in particular), you're just left completely understanding how millions and millions of good people got caught up in it.