The Wave Page #8

Synopsis: High school teacher, Rainer Wegner, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He's less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Dennis Gansel
Production: Constantin Film
  9 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
NOT RATED
Year:
2008
107 min
Website
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Mr Wenger wishes not to be disturbed

during his speech, you got it?

Everybody get in now,

we are about to start!

Actually, I always had everything

that I wanted, clothes, money etc...

...but what I had the

most was a boredom.

These are my words.

But the last few days

have been real fun.

It is no longer about who the most

beautiful or the best or the most successful.

The Wave has made us all equal.

Race, religion and social

status plays no role anymore.

We all belong to one movement.

The Wave gives us new meaning.

Ideals for which it

is worth to stand up.

I had bullied other students before.

If I really think back about

myself, it was really retarded of me.

It is much better to

stand up for a noble cause.

When you can lean on somebody

else, you can achieve so much more.

I am ready step back

from my bad behaviour.

As you probably all noticed...

...these are all excerpts from your essays

on the experience from the last week.

I am very impressed with what

The Wave had brought to you.

And that's why I also believe

this project should not simply end.

- Rainer, what it this sh*t?

- Marco, do sit.

Yes but... Man, people think...

I've told you to sit down!

For several years the

Germany is going downhill!

We are the losers from globalization...

...but the politics tries to prove,

that struggling more and more...

...is the only way out of crisis.

But politicians are

puppets of the economy!

The unemployment rate should fall!

We are also world champion in exports!

But in reality...

...the poor are getting poorer

and the rich are getting richer!

Once the major threat was the terrorism.

A terror that we have created ourselves, by

allowing unfairness in the rest of the world!

And while we are slowly but

surely ruining our planet...

...some super-rich people sit

somewhere and rub their hands.

Building space capsules for themselves to be

able to see the whole thing from high above!

Don't you all understand his intentions?

He wants to manipulate you all!

Its enough, sit down.

You will not stop me from

telling the truth, Marco.

The Wave is the real problem!

No, The Wave is the only way that

that is able to make things better!

Because together we

can make thing happen!

We!

Today we have a chance

here to write the history!

Your girlfriend had turned you

against us. That is your problem.

- It is not true.

- Of course it's true!

She had completely

infected you with her sh*t.

You will not stop us!

From in here, The Wave should

reach the whole Germany!

And those who cross its path...

...will be washed away!

Exactly.

Bring forward the traitor!

Marco, Now I ask you in

front of everybody here:

Are you with us or against us?

Have you all completely

lost your mind, or what?

What should we do with the traitor?

What to do with traitor?

Bomber, you decide!

Come on, speak!

You have brought him up here.

Yeah, because you said so.

Yes, because I said, right?

And would you kill him, if I say so?

We can also hang or decapitate him!

Or maybe torture him until...

...he is committed to our rules!

That are the usual things

they do in a dictatorship.

Have you noticed what

had just happened here?

- Everything okay, Marco?

Yes, everything fine.

Can you remember...

...what question was floating

in the air since the last week?

Whether it was still possible

to have a dictatorship back here.

That was exactly that, fascism.

We all have taught we

are better than that.

Better than all the others.

And what is even worse...

...we have excluded from our community

all of these that didn't share our opinion.

We had them hurt.

I don't even want to know what

else would have we been capable of.

I must apologize to all of you.

We went too far.

I went too far.

The things will come to the end here.

And what does that mean

now... ...for The Wave?

That it is over.

Just like that?

Yes, just like that.

No, it is not over.

Yes Tim, it is over.

But not everything in The Wave is bad!

We all felt that.

Yes, we made some mistakes,

but nothing we can not correct!

No Dennis...

...some things you can not correct.

I want you all to go home now.

There are certainly things

that you should think about.

- Maja, I...

- Leave me alone.

Stop!

All remain at your seat

and leave the doors!

Nobody goes home!

- Put the gun away.

- You have lied to us.

The Wave lives, it is not dead!

Everybody say:
"The Wave lives!

That is only a gas-gun.

Yes...

Now you take me seriously!

Do you think that I don't know

that you had always picked on me.

And you all had f***ed with me.

The Wave...

...it was my life.

Tim, calm down.

Calm down.

Put the gun away.

Another step further and I

will shoot you in the face.

And then?

What then?

Then, there is no more Mr

Wenger, who can lead your Wave.

Is that what you want?

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