The Wave/ Die Welle Their teacher became their leader. His students became his soldiers. Release date: 2008-03-13 Genres: Drama, Thriller Actors: Teresa Harder, Thomas Sarbacher, Cristina do Rego, Johanna Gastdorf, Karoline Teska, Alexander Held, Max Mauff, Maximilian Vollmar, Jacob Matschenz, Maren Kroymann, Jürgen Vogel, Max Riemelt, Amelie Kiefer, Natascha Paulick, Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow, Tommy Schwimmer, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich, Tim Oliver Schultz, Joseph M'Barek, Elyas M'Barek, Hubert Mulzer, Christiane Paul, Lennard Bertzbach, Tino Mewes, Odine Johne, Jaime Krsto Ferkic, 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.