The Wave (Die Weller)
Sunday, December 14, 2008 @ 6.00 pm
Cert 15
Dennis Gansel | Germany | 2008 |107′
An unorthodox social experiment takes on a life of its own when Rainer Wenger decides to start to demonstrate the meaning of the word ‘autocracy’ in language that his students will understand. He must make them live it, and so The Wave, the name given to their new movement, is systematically created in the classroom from where it spreads with dangerous speed. This intense, gripping drama cuts through superficial ideoligies and goes straight to the human psychologies that contribute to Fascist movements. The terrifying irony is that these students may welcome the very things they denounce.
Drama afaelgar am arbrawf cymdeithasol anarferol sy’n cymryd arno fywyd ei hun tu allan i’r ystafell ddosbarth wrth i athro geisio arddangos ystyr y gair ‘awtocratiaeth’ i’w fyfyrwyr mewn iaith byddant yn ei deall.
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