MovieThe Wave
2008 · Released · 107 min
Rainer Wenger, a high school teacher renowned for his atypical teaching methods, is given the task of leading an educational workshop on the theme of autocracy. Faced with his pupils' skepticism about the return of a totalitarian regime in Germany, he decides to organize a life-size role-playing game, subjecting the class to strict rules of discipline.
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