The Experiment (2001)

March 8, 2001 (DE) • Drama, Thriller • 120m

Overview

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.

Director

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Writers

Mario Giordano, Mario Giordano, Don Bohlinger, Christoph Darnstädt

Top Billed

Moritz Bleibtreu

Keywords

prison journalist rape prisoner experiment based on novel or book authority prison cell blackbox scientific study aggression test person imprisonment manipulation torture humiliation angry absurd dramatic critical antagonistic audacious awestruck baffled defiant demeaning earnest

Where to watch

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Top Billed Cast

Moritz Bleibtreu

Tarek Fahd, Prisoner Nr. 77

Christian Berkel

Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38

Justus von Dohnányi

Berus

Maren Eggert

Dora

Edgar Selge

Professor Dr. Klaus Thon

Andrea Sawatzki

Dr. Jutta Grimm

Oliver Stokowski

Günther Schütte, Prisoner Nr. 82

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Joe Maier, Prisoner Nr. 69

Nicki von Tempelhoff

Kamps

Timo Dierkes

Eckert

Antoine Monot Jr.

Bosch

Lars Gärtner

Renzel

Philipp Hochmair

Lars

Peter Fieseler

Prisoner Nr. 11

Ralf Müller

Prisoner Nr. 15

Danny Richter

Prisoner Nr. 21

Polat Dal

Prisoner Nr. 40

Stephan Szasz

Prisoner Nr. 53

Markus Rudolf

Prisoner Nr. 74

Thorsten Dersch

Prisoner Nr. 86

Sven Grefer

Prisoner Nr. 94

Jacek Klimontko

Gläser

Markus Klauk

Stock

Ralph Püttmann

Amandy

André Jung

Ziegler

Uwe Rohde

Hans

Heiner Lauterbach

Dennis (voice)

Fatih Akin

Cab Driver (voice)

Christiane Gerboth

Newscaster (voice)

Tristan Vostry

Assistant

Klaus Spinnler

Assistant

Crew

Rainer Klausmann

Director of Photography

Hans Funck

Editor

Marc Conrad

Producer

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Director

An Dorthe Braker

Casting

Alexander Bubenheim

Original Music Composer

Klaus Spinnler

Production Manager

Friedrich Wildfeuer

Producer

Norbert Preuss

Producer

Alfred Holighaus

Thanks

Helmut Dietl

Thanks

Dieter Schmidt

Carpenter

Stefan Isfort

Property Master

Stefan Gärtner

Thanks

Isabel Kleefeld

Assistant Director

Uwe Brauer

Painter

Christof Ebhardt

Sound Editor

Jörn Poetzl

Foley

Stefan Biebl

Additional Camera

Karl-Heinz Bochnig

Special Effects

Ernst Reimann

Stunts

Nicholas Goodwin

Assistant Editor

Alexander Bubenheim

Orchestrator

Mario Giordano

Novel

Tanja Schwichtenberg

Extras Casting

Mary May

Makeup Artist

Sylvia Reusch

Makeup Artist

Magda Habernickel

Supervising Sound Editor

Alexander Dominitzki

Unit Manager

Stephan Bechem

Unit Manager

Oliver Wißmann

Production Coordinator

Marika Dornbusch

Production Accountant

Bettina Flasdick

Assistant Accountant

Tristan Vostry

Production Trainee

Ulrike Leibfried

Producer

Christl Druxeis

Production Accountant

Ariane Thiede

Production Coordinator

Ulrike Hampeter

Second Assistant Director

Heike Manzke

Continuity

Jens Piotrowski

Assistant Camera

Ralf M. Mendle

Additional Camera

Frank Lehner

Sound Assistant

Peter Krammer

Gaffer

Jürgen Tomadini

Lighting Technician

Udo Heinz

Lighting Technician

Roland Scheidt

Additional Lighting Technician

Ingo Hilden

Assistant Grip

Bernd Mayer

Grip

Randy Wittur

Stunts

Ursula Münstermann

Assistant Costume Designer

Martina Jeddicke

Wardrobe Master

Kai Koch

Assistant Production Design

Frank Meter

Location Scout

Ricky Stecker

Driver

Dagmar Wessel

Property Master

Daniel Peeck

Construction Coordinator

Thorsten Sabel

Set Dresser

Katja Schlömer

Set Dresser

Christoph Steeger

Modeling

Uli Langenberg

Construction Manager

Lenny Lehmann

Carpenter

Oliver Koch

Carpenter

Uwe Belke

Carpenter

Markus Baum

Carpenter

Doriano Quintavalle

Carpenter

Fee Kolb

Painter

Uwe Fuchs

Electrician

Hermann Koenen

Catering

Maria Sobecki-Grimm

Catering

Bernd Spauke

Still Photographer

Marcel Winterscheidt

Production Driver

Diana Schwieger

Production Driver

Annette Prey

Sound Editor

Annette Prey

Sound Effects

Marcel Spisak

Sound Effects

Marcel Spisak

Sound Editor

Christof Ebhardt

Sound Effects

Lisa Geffcken-Reinhard

Foley Editor

Monika Gussner

Dialogue Editor

Angela Reedwisch

Visual Effects Producer

Jürgen Schopper

Visual Effects Supervisor

Christian Zeh

Digital Compositor

Marian Mavrovic

Digital Compositor

Michael Otto

Title Designer

Christa Garmeier

Negative Cutter

Otto Kieper

Business Affairs Coordinator

Jochem Strate

Legal Services

Georg Naschke

Music Coordinator

Olaf Mierau

Music Supervisor

Wolfgang Lechenmayr

Music Editor

Alexandre Frank

Sound Supervisor

Max Rammler-Rogall

Musician

Hanno Simons

Musician

Tommy Eberhardt

Musician

Alex Klier

Musician

Dirk Blothner

Thanks

Oliver Castendyk

Thanks

Oliver Schütte

Thanks

Béla Jarzyk

Thanks

Mechthild Holter

Thanks

Sigrid Narjes

Thanks

Wolfgang Wirtz

Sound

Max Rammler-Rogall

Sound Mixer

Claudia Bobsin

Costume Designer

Uli Hanisch

Art Direction

Andrea Kessler

Production Design

Philip Evenkamp

Line Producer

Benjamin Herrmann

Co-Producer

Mario Giordano

Writer

Don Bohlinger

Writer

Christoph Darnstädt

Writer

Moritz Bleibtreu

Camera Operator

Jo Teh

Painter

Jochen Behle

Production Driver

Reviews

John Chard

⭐ 10/10

June 4, 2019

Berus V 77, Experiment, Das (2001), amazing experience!

So it took me close on 7 years to watch it, so it took me to do a thread about my personal prison based film project on IMDb to get some prompts for this film, I'm just like Novacaine, if you give me time, I get there.

Based on the real life Stanford prison experiment in 1971, Das Experiment is a fabulous construction of seams coming apart in the human psyche, the films triumph is tha… read the rest.