

Germany today. During project week, high school teacher Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel) comes up with the idea of an experiment to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. Thus begins an experiment that will end with tragic results. In just a few days, what begins with a series of innocuous ideas such as discipline and a sense of community becomes a real movement: the wave. On the third day, the students begin to isolate and threaten each other. When the conflict finally breaks into violence during a water polo match, the professor decides not to continue with the experiment, but by then it is too late, the wave has gotten out of control.
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