Characters & Themes
The Wave (1981) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1981 · 44 mins · English
- Directed by
- Alexander Grasshoff
- Starring
- Bruce Davison, Frank Lloyd, Jamie Rose, John Putch, Lori Lethin, Teri Ralston
In an American high school, a teacher launches a classroom experiment to illustrate how ordinary people can be drawn into the same social dynamics that enabled Nazi Germany’s atrocities. As the exercise intensifies, students experience how quickly conformity and authoritarian ideas spread, revealing the ease with which collective oppression can arise. The story is drawn from real events.
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