Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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You really get to know the characters in the film and it really tugs at your heart strings at the end.

The outsider theme was expanded by introducing three new characters: Sinan who is Turkish, Kevin the aggressive bully, and Dennis from East Germany who is mocked as " Ossi". This bleak ending was not in Rhue's original book, but I think that it represents a change for the better. The film is smart in that it observes the actions and reactions of a large cross-section of students to their collective role-play, rather than just a few.

The Wave ( German: Die Welle) is a 2008 German socio-political thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. Many still have their membership cards, say The Wave was a turning point in their lives, and equate it with their success.

When Wenger, an affable schoolteacher who seems to be rebellious towards traditional instruction, gets selected to teach a class on autocracy, he is upset. Some of the kids are too ridiculous to be real, eg the kid who is always making silly jokes and pranks without any repercussions. This experiment inspired the book "The Wave" by Morton Rhue, and this in turn served as the basis for this film, which transfers the action from America in the 1960s to modern Germany. She is the typical hippieesque do-gooder who is almost fascistic herself in the way she is trying to get her own point across and thus creates an interesting and realistic persona. According to the lack of depth in their motives and emotions, they seem to be distanced, the critics argued further, especially Karo's transformation from the enthusiastic participant to the aggressive opponent is not comprehensible.At first sight German socio-political thriller film The Wave initially just seems too cute, convenient and contrived.