The Wave

“Their teacher became their leader. His students became his soldiers.”

Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel) would rather teach anarchy, but he draws the autocracy week at his German high school, and his students groan that a dictatorship could never happen here again. So he starts an experiment to show them how easily a classroom can be led. Dennis Gansel keeps the camera on Tim (Frederick Lau), a boy with no friends, standing among the others in the same white shirt.