Original Title: Die Welle

Director: Dennis Gansel

Writers: Dennis Gansel; Peter Thorwarth

From novel by: Todd Strasser

Keywords: Thriller

A high school teacher creates a role-playing game for his students to teach about totalitarianism, producing unintended consequences.

ABSTRACT
Rainer Wenger, unorthodox high school teacher in modern-day Germany, creates a role-playing game for the purposes of teaching his class about totalitarian systems of government. The class project, innocuous enough in its infancy, soon takes on a life of its own as the students involved begin to take their roles recalling old Nazi Germany a bit too seriously, producing a terrifying movement called "The Wave" that Rainer must somehow find a way to contain.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Christiane Paul	Actor	8-Mar-1974		In July
Jürgen Vogel	Actor	29-Apr-1968		Life Is All You Get

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