The Wave/ Die Welle Their teacher became their leader. His students became his soldiers. Release date: 2008-03-13 Genres: Drama, Thriller Actors: Johanna Gastdorf, Cristina do Rego, Thomas Sarbacher, Teresa Harder, Karoline Teska, Max Mauff, Jacob Matschenz, Alexander Held, Maren Kroymann, Max Riemelt, Maximilian Vollmar, Frederick Lau, Jürgen Vogel, Tim Oliver Schultz, Jennifer Ulrich, Amelie Kiefer, Natascha Paulick, Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow, Tommy Schwimmer, Joseph M'Barek, Elyas M'Barek, Hubert Mulzer, Christiane Paul, Lennard Bertzbach, Jaime Krsto Ferkic, Odine Johne, Tino Mewes, Marco Bretscher-Coschignano, Friederike Wagner, Fabian Preger, Lucas Hardt Direction: Dennis Gansel Budget: $7,500,000Revenue: $32,350,637 Runtime: 1 h. 47 min. Score: 7.5/10 Votes: 3,443 Countries: Germany Companies: Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Medienfonds GFP, B.A. Produktion, Constantin Film, Celluloid Dreams Available* : Overview: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.