What it is: A German film about a two-week psychological experiment that goes awry. Test subjects assigned to play guards mutiny and then torture subjects assigned to play prisoners; one prisoner is ...
“Das Experiment” was already a box-office smash at home in Germany, thanks in part to the star power of Bleibtreu (“Run Lola Run“). Samuel Goldwyn released “Das Experiment” in the U.S. today.
A scientist stages a sociological experiment, recruiting 20 subjects and making 8 of them guards and 12 prisoners. Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) directed this German feature, adapted by Mario ...