Das Experiment

The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards. The 'prisoners' are locked up and have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the 'guards' are told simply to retain order without using physical violence. Everybody is free to quit at any time, thereby forfeiting payment. In the beginning the mood between both groups is insecure and rather emphatic. But soon quarrels arise and the wardens employ ever more drastic sanctions to confirm their authority.

Original Title : DAS EXPERIMENTDirector(s) : Oliver HirschbiegelWriter(s) : Mario Giordano (novel 'Black Box'), Mario Giordano (screenplay) &, Christoph Darnstädt (screenplay) &, Don Bohlinger (screenplay)Genre(s) : Drama | ThrillerLength : 120 min | 114 min (DVD) | 109 min (cut) | 120 min (uncut)Year : 2001Country : GermanyLangage : GermanCoulor : ColorRatio : 185 : 1Sound : Dolby DigitalFrench Released : 2003-03-25US Released : 2002-05-25Aka(s) :
Das Experiment - (original title)
El experimento - Argentina, Spain, Peru
A Experiência - Brazil, Portugal
Eksperiment - Croatia , Serbia
Eksperimentet - Denmark, Norway
L'expérience - Canada (French title), France
The Experiment - USA , World-wide (English title) (literal title)
A kísérlet - Hungary
Black Box - Germany (working title)
Deney - Turkey (Turkish title)
Eksperyment - Poland
Es - Japan
Experiment - Ihmiskoe - Finland (TV title)
Experimentet - Sweden
L'expériment - Canada (DVD title) (French title)
O Experimento - Brazil (festival title)
The Experiment - Cercasi cavie umane - Italy
To peirama - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
?? ??????? - Greece
??????????? - RussiaActors :
Moritz Bleibtreu Tarek Fahd - Häftling Nr 77 / Prisoner #77
Christian Berkel Robert Steinhoff Nr 38
Oliver Stokowski Günther Schütte Nr 82
Wotan Wilke Möhring Joe Maier Nr 69
Stephan Szasz Häftling Nr 53
Polat Dal Häftling Nr 40
Danny Richter Häftling Nr 21
Ralf Müller Häftling Nr 15
Markus Rudolf Häftling Nr 74
Peter Fieseler Häftling Nr 11
Thorsten Dersch Häftling Nr 86 (as Thorsten JH Dersch)
Sven Grefer Häftling Nr 94
Justus von Dohnányi Berus - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard (as Justus von Dohnànyi)
Nicki von Tempelhoff Kamps - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Timo Dierkes Eckert - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Antoine Monot Jr Bosch - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Lars Gärtner Renzel - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Jacek Klimontko Gläser - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Markus Klauk Stock - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Ralph Püttmann Amandy - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard
Edgar Selge Professor Dr Klaus Thon - Wissenschaftler / Scientist
Andrea Sawatzki Dr Jutta Grimm - Wissenschaftler / Scientist
Philipp Hochmair Die Wissenschaftler - Lars
Klaus Spinnler Assistent / Assistant
Tristan Vostry Assistent / Assistant
Maren Eggert Dora
André Jung Ziegler
Uwe Rohde Hans
Heiner Lauterbach Dennis (voice)
Fatih Akin Taxifahrer (voice)
Christiane Gerboth Nachrichtensprecherin (voice)