Die Welle

The wave begins with a film about the Holocaust. The young teacher Ben Ross shows the pupils of Gordon High School pictures of exterminated Jews in the concentration camp. All are disgusted and horrified, but a group around Laurie Saunders from the student newspaper “Die Ente” can not and will not believe that people are capable of such atrocities at all. To convince her and others, Ross is launching an experiment that installs methods of dictatorship almost inadvertently. And suddenly the class compound disintegrates into victims and perpetrators - until the situation in a terrible way escalates.