CERN CineClub - The Wave

Thursday 13 Oct 2011, 20:30 → 22:12 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

 
directed by Dennis Gensel
(Germany, 2008)  107 min
 
With: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
 
 
High school teacher Rainer Wegner may be popular with the students, but he is also unorthodox.  He is forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week.  He is less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least.  He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what is happening before the horrors start repeating themselves?

original version german - english subtitles