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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 4009750243763
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 159540
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's German-language movie The Experiment finds a group of 20 volunteers randomly divided into 12 prisoners and eight guards and asked to play out their roles for a fortnight while scientists study their reactions. A conflict arises between undercover reporter Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu), a con with a hidden agenda, and the apparently mild-mannered Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), a guard with a megalomaniac streak. The film begins as a psychological drama as ordinary people settle into the game, with joking displays of resistance by the 'prisoners' greeted with increasing brutality from the 'guards,' but detours into suspense and horror as Fahd, who needs the experiment to get out of hand in order to make his story more saleable, deliberately ratchets up the tension between the factions only to see the situation spiral nightmarishly out of control as various test subjects in both camps edge closer to snapping.
With a terrific display of ensemble acting and unforced use of the popular claustrophobic semi-documentary look, Hirschbiegel's movie takes its time to get underway, with apparently irrelevant cutaways to Fahd's outside girlfriend (Maren Eggert), but works up to a powerful second half that delivers a sustained symphony of psychological and physical anguish. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - What men can do
A truly scary reflection of the way a small amount of power, in this case being made a Prison Guard, can change normal people into monsters - or so it would seem. However what I gathered from the film was that the experimenters knew that the two leading protaganists would end up at each others throats. Perhaps not literally but they were chosen with that in mind.
Obviously there has been quite a bit of spicing up of the original Stanford case and the addition/distraction of the gorgeous ... Read More
Rating:  - Disturbing, Gripping microcosm of innate Human Nature.
Das Experiment is without a doubt a must see film for those whom are not too sensitive to violence mixed with suspense.
It is a German Movie and subtitles can always be distracting, but it is in essence a phenomenal piece of work for all lovers of metaphysical understanding.
To exemplify here the whole story it would be rendering the suspense to oblivion: it's best to let the viewer make up his/her own vision without guidance; be it objective or subjective.
I truly enjoyed it and so ... Read More
Rating: - OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL, OPUS 1
***** 2001. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Four German Film Academy awards and three nominations for the European Film awards. Scientists hire twelve volunteers and lock them up in the basement of the building. Six men will play the prisoners and the others the wardens. Soon, the experiment becomes out of control. This fascinating movie will please those of you who liked Peter Brooks' Lord of the Flies - Criterion Collection. Masterpiece.
Rating: - WHO ARE YOU? REALLY?
THE EXPERIMENT is a German film that is based on the "infamous Stanford Prison Experiment" preformed in 1971. I had never heard of this, but I will definitely look for information about this after viewing THE EXPERIMENT.
The plot goes like this--20 men answered an ad asking for volunteers for a mock prison experiment with a payment at the end of 14 days of 4000 marks. The men were divided up into 12 prison guards and 8 prisoners. The first day, the division goes rather smoothly, with joking ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing film
Based on a real experiment held in 1971, The Experiment follows the plight of 20 men who all volunteer of their own volition in order to gain the promised money at the end of their stay. They are placed inside a mock prison facility held in the basement of the Stanford psychology building where the group is divided, with eight men playing the guards and the remaining twelve, the inmates, who are watched by cameras so that the researchers can study their behavior. Let's just say that things get out of hand... ... Read More
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