The Experiment
2001
You are invited to participate
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
User Rating
Intensity
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
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- Director
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Written by
- Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt, Don Bohlinger
- Produced by
- Friedrich Wildfeuer, Marc Conrad, Norbert Preuss
- Composer
- Alexander Bubenheim
- Cinematographer
- Rainer Klausmann
- Editor
- Hans Funck
- Studios
- Senator Film, Typhoon Film, Fanes Film
- Origin country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Language
- German
- TMDB
- 7.4/10 (1,259 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 72% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 59/100
- IMDb
- 7.7/10 (99,218 votes)
Cast
Moritz Bleibtreu
Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77
Christian Berkel
Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
Justus von Dohnányi
Berus
Maren Eggert
Dora
Edgar Selge
Professor Dr. Klaus Thon
Andrea Sawatzki
Dr. Jutta Grimm
Oliver Stokowski
Günther Schütte, Prisoner Nr. 82
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Joe Maier, Prisoner Nr. 69
Nicki von Tempelhoff
Kamps
Timo Dierkes
Eckert
Antoine Monot Jr.
Bosch
Lars Gärtner
Renzel
Philipp Hochmair
Lars
Peter Fieseler
Prisoner Nr. 11
Ralf Müller
Prisoner Nr. 15
Danny Richter
Prisoner Nr. 21
Polat Dal
Prisoner Nr. 40
Stephan Szasz
Prisoner Nr. 53
Crew
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Director
Christoph Darnstädt
Writer
Don Bohlinger
Writer
Mario Giordano
Writer
Friedrich Wildfeuer
Producer
Marc Conrad
Producer
Norbert Preuss
Producer
Ulrike Leibfried
Producer
Alexander Bubenheim
Original Music Composer
Rainer Klausmann
Director of Photography
Hans Funck
Editor
Andrea Kessler
Production Design
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