The Experiment( 2001)

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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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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
Markus Rudolf
Prisoner Nr. 74
Thorsten Dersch
Prisoner Nr. 86
Sven Grefer
Prisoner Nr. 94
Jacek Klimontko
Gläser
Markus Klauk
Stock
Ralph Püttmann
Amandy
André Jung
Ziegler
Uwe Rohde
Hans
Heiner Lauterbach
Dennis (voice)
Fatih Akin
Cab Driver (voice)
Christiane Gerboth
Newscaster (voice)
Tristan Vostry
Assistant
Klaus Spinnler
Assistant

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Tue Jun 04 2019

Berus V 77, Experiment, Das (2001), amazing experience! So it took me close on 7 years to watch it, so it took me to do a thread about my personal prison based film project on IMDb to get some prompts for this film, I'm just like Novacaine, if you give me time, I get there. Based on the real life Stanford prison experiment in 1971, Das Experiment is a fabulous construction of seams coming apart in the human psyche, the films triumph is that we are never left in any doubt that things are going to go pear shaped from the off, but the fact that it manages to bash you over the head with its ...