 DVD cover to Das Experiment; same image as movie poster. Das Experiment ("The Experiment" in the US) is a 2001 German movie inspired by the events of the Stanford prison experiment in the United States. DVD cover to Das Experiment. ...
DVD cover to Das Experiment. ...
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2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life. ...
Storyline
Tarek Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu) participates with 19 other candidates in a prison-simulation experiment for two weeks advertised in a newspaper. The candidates are selected by a computer to be either prisoner or guard. The experiment begins smoothly, but quickly deteriorates as the guards, in particular Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), develop megalomaniac tendencies. Prof. Klaus Thon (Edgar Selge), perceiving the deterioration as standard psychological reactions, refuses to end the experiment, to the protest of his assistant Dr. Jutta Grimm (Andrea Sawatzki). As time progresses, the guards go to great lengths to conceal their actions and keep the experiment running, eventually imprisoning two professors, including Grimm, and killing Thon. The revelation that the two-week experiment will now have no end strikes the prisoners, and they rise up in a bloody showdown against the guards, with members of both sides suffering gruesome deaths. The prisoners escape and Berus is arrested for murder. Moritz Bleibtreu Moritz Bleibtreu (born August 13, 1971 in Munich) is a German actor, best known for starring in Knockin On Heavens Door (1997), Run Lola Run (1998), Im Juli (2000), Lammbock (2001), Das Experiment (2001) and Solino (2002). ...
From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum attempt). ...
Megalomania currently refers to the following Wikipedia articles: Megalomania (mental illness), a pattern of character traits and behaviors. ...
Similarities with real events While the story is based on the real Stanford Prison Experiment, the events as they occur differ greatly. The experiment in Stanford was aborted after six days following concerns from the scientists that the guards were abusing the prisoners, and that the prisoners (who were really college students) were undergoing psychological damage and becoming increasingly withdrawn. These concerns are echoed in the film by Dr. Grimm, but Prof. Thon decides not to act on them, forming the basis for a more intense climax. Nonetheless, a number of events from the real experiment are mirrored in the film. The prisoners were indeed sprayed with fire extinguishers and prisoners were also forced to clean the toilets with their bare hands, although in the original experiment several were forced to do this - in the film only Tarek was forced to do so as punishment. The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life. ...
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