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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Mario Giordano (novel)
Mario Giordano (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
8 March 2001 (Germany) more
Tagline:
Bist du stark genug? more
Plot:
The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab... more | add synopsis
Awards:
13 wins & 15 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(37 articles)
First Look: Adrien Brody & Forest Whitaker in The Experiment
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First Look at Adrien Brody in The Experiment
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A true experience more (153 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Moritz Bleibtreu | ... | Tarek Fahd - Häftling Nr. 77 / Prisoner #77 | |
| Christian Berkel | ... | Steinhoff - Häftling Nr. 38 / Prisoner #38 | |
| Oliver Stokowski | ... | Schütte - Häftling Nr. 82 / Prisoner #82 | |
| Wotan Wilke Möhring | ... | Joe - Häftling Nr. 69 / Prisoner #69 | |
| Stephan Szasz | ... | Häftling Nr. 53 / Prisoner #53 | |
| Polat Dal | ... | Häftling Nr. 40 / Prisoner #40 | |
| Danny Richter | ... | Häftling Nr. 21 / Prisoner #21 | |
| Ralf Müller | ... | Häftling Nr. 15 / Prisoner #15 | |
| Markus Rudolf | ... | Häftling Nr. 74 / Prisoner #74 | |
| Peter Fieseler | ... | Häftling Nr. 11 / Prisoner #11 | |
| Thorsten Dersch | ... | Häftling Nr. 86 / Prisoner #86 (as Thorsten J.H. Dersch) | |
| Sven Grefer | ... | Häftling Nr. 94 / Prisoner #94 | |
| Justus von Dohnanyi | ... | Berus - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard (as Justus von Dohnànyi) | |
| Nicki von Tempelhoff | ... | Kamps - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard | |
| Timo Dierkes | ... | Eckert - Strafvollzugsbeamter / Guard |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Experiment (International: English title) (USA)
Black Box (Germany) (working title)
El experimento (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
A Experiência (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
L'expérience (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Эксперимент (Russia) [ru]
A kísérlet (Hungary) [hu]
Deney (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Eksperimentet (Norway) [no]
Eksperimentet (Denmark) [da]
Eksperyment (Poland) [pl]
Es (Japan) [ja]
Experiment - Ihmiskoe (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
Experimentet (Sweden) [sv]
L'expériment (Canada: French title) (DVD title) [fr]
O Experimento (Brazil) (festival title) [pt]
The Experiment (Italy) [it]
To peirama (Greece) [el]
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, disturbing situations, language, sexuality and nudity.
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Runtime:
Canada:114 min (DVD) | South Korea:109 min (cut version) | Germany:120 min (uncut version)
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | Ireland:18 | Sweden:15 (DVD rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:MA | Brazil:18 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-15 | France:-16 | Germany:16 (w) | Italy:VM14 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:R(A) | South Korea:18 (cut) | Spain:18 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R
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Although no one died in the Stanford Prison Experiment on which the movie was based, the experiment was prematurely ended after six days out of a planned two weeks. The college students assigned to be prisoners was "withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways" as a result of the degrading treatment they received. Quite a few scenes in the movie actually happened in the original experiment, including the early fire extinguisher scene and the prisoners being forced to clean the toilets by their bare hands. more
Goofs:
Continuity: As the prisoners escape, they lock the door to the cell block and break off the key, forcing the guards to go another way. However when Doctor Thon returns the door is wide open. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Tarek Fahd, Häftling Nr. 77:
[voiceover, reading newspaper ad] Test subjects wanted. Earn 4000 marks for a 14-day experiment in a simulated prison.
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Referenced in "Het glazen huis: Eigen agenda (#1.52)" (2005) more
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Mali Ghanni Aannak more
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Now this is the kind of movie Hollywood should make!
Movie about an experiment gone all out of hand, with 20 men posing to be guards and prisoners for a period of 2 weeks. We follow the events mainly through the eyes of reporter/taxidriver Tarek, a 'prisoner', who thinks there's a good story to tell.
But things go all wrong when the guards really feel like they're God and things only get worse from that moment on. There's an amazing scene with Tarek in a 'black box', that scene is as scary as I have ever seen on screen.
Surely a movie you won't forget too soon. Terrifying, exciting, horrific, brilliant!
9/10.