Overview
Plot
Twenty volunteers join a paid university experiment on aggression in a simulated prison. A journalist infiltrates the group as participants are split into prisoners and guards, and what begins as a game soon turns deadly serious.
- Directors
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Cast
- Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Justus von Dohnányi, Maren Eggert, Edgar Selge, Andrea Sawatzki, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Nicki von Tempelhoff, Timo Dierkes, Antoine Monot Jr., Lars Gärtner, Philipp Hochmair, Peter Fieseler, Ralf Müller, Danny Richter, Polat Dal, Stephan Szasz, Markus Rudolf, Thorsten Dersch
- Country
- Germany
- Genre
- Drama, Thriller
- Release date
- 2001-03-08
- Studios
- Fanes Film, Typhoon Film, Senator Film, Seven Pictures
Plot
Warning: spoilers
A university advertises a well-paid experiment studying aggressive behavior in an artificial prison setting, drawing 20 volunteers. A journalist who senses a story behind the ad smuggles himself in among the test subjects. The participants are randomly assigned roles as prisoners or guards, and the initial game-like atmosphere quickly escalates into bloody seriousness.
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