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	Political Film Society - Das Experiment
		When the experiment begins, eight subjects are chosen to be guards, the remaining twelve are prisoners.
		Throughout the experiment, Tarek maintains his sanity by recalling Dora (played by Maren Eggert), a woman whose car ran into his taxi just before the experiment began whom he took home to recover from the shock, whereupon they had sex, and she visits him in prison.
		Das Experiment, thus, raises fundamental questions about the dysfunctionality of the contemporary penal system, in which survival requires prisoners to become more hardened, thus promoting even more crime when prisoners are released.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/dasexperiment.html (730 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Das Experiment (2001)
		Das Experiment posits a thin line between civilization and savagery, arguing that men have not evolved beyond their aggressive, destructive impulses, and have an innate need to dominate those around them.
		Das Experiment addresses women differently, as a positive influence in men's lives, perhaps even as the missing half of a perfect whole.
		Das Experiment is a psychic explosion of a movie--a film as difficult to watch as it is to stop watching, pulling you to the edge of your seat in order to insinuate itself into your brain.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/d/dasexperiment.htm (1219 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Movies \| Das Experiment
		"Das Experiment," a film by Oliver Hirschbiegel, uses one such behavioral experiment as a background for a riveting and intense thriller.
		They are warned again and again that their basic human rights will be forfeit during the experiment, given a battery of computerized psychological tests, and have their health carefully scrutinized by a team of doctors.
		What makes "Das Experiment" so effective is that in addition to being a surprisingly tense thriller, it also nudges its audience into asking a few questions of their own.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=255 (611 words)

	Das Experiment (2002) - Reviews - Moovees.com
		Das Experiment, the latest import from Germany, examines human behavior from a peculiar and frightening perspective.
		The experiment sounds simple: the guards must act as real guards and the prisoners must obey their orders, as would real-life convicts.
		In Das Experiment, Bleibtreu is placed in a troubled situation as well, where he experiences pressuring moments.
	www.moovees.com /review/pauls/das-experiment.html (921 words)

	Das Experiment
		A psychological experiment gone horribly awry is subject of Das Experiment, a new German film that toes the line between plausibility and dramatic effect.
		It is the policy of the scientists running the experiment not to interfere, although everybody is under constant surveillance.
		Das Experiment is based on the novel Black Box by Mario Giordano, who adapted the novel with Don Bohlinger (Mortal Friends, Liebesengel) and Christoph Darnstadt.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/das_experiment.html (509 words)

	EI > Reviews > Das Experiment (2002)
		Das Experiment is a chilling look into the human psyche and the frightening capacity normal human beings have of becoming shockingly cruel and inhuman through subjection to extreme environments and extreme situations.
		He decides to investigate and discovers that the experiment involves dividing 2 groups of men randomly into prisoners and prison guards, placing them in a simulated prison inside the university where their reactions will be studied by the doctors conducting the experiment.
		Eventually the experiment goes completely out of control even for the doctors and what happens in the last 30 minutes or so of the movie is brutal, dark, and shocking.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/dasexperiment.php (1039 words)

	Das Experiment (2001): Mortiz Bleibtreu, Justus von Dohnanyi, Christian Berkel - PopMatters Film Review
		As a consequence, the experiment that was scheduled to last for two weeks had to be cancelled on its sixth day.
		Das Experiment is an intense German film based on the novel, Black Box by Mario Giordano, inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment.
		Das Experiment imagines beyond the actual events, elaborating on what would have happened if the researchers had completely lost control of the experiment.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/e/experiment.shtml (1153 words)

	Das Experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Das Experiment ("The Experiment" in the US) is a 2001 German movie inspired by the events of the Stanford prison experiment in the United States.
		Klaus Thon (Edgar Selge), perceiving the deterioration as standard psychological reactions, refuses to end the experiment, despite the protests of his assistant, Dr. Jutta Grimm (Andrea Sawatzki).
		The experiment in Stanford was aborted after six days following concerns from the scientists that the guards were abusing the prisoners, and that the prisoners were undergoing psychological trauma and becoming increasingly withdrawn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Das_Experiment (333 words)

	Kinoeye \| German horror: Oliver Hirschbiegel's Das Experiment
		Since Das Experiment is a slick action thriller, competently handled in the best Hollywood style and featuring as the lead (Bleibtreu) one of the young male stars of contemporary German cinema, the film's commercial success is hardly surprising.
		It is also significant that, when the experiment's guards arrest Grimm, the attack against her takes the form of rape, from which all the male prisoners, abused as they may otherwise be, are curiously exempt.
		Tarek fantasises about her whenever the claustrophobic pressures of the experiment weigh too heavily on him, and her physical entry into the prison—her witnessing gaze—seems to have the power to hinder, even arrest the ultimate decline of social relations.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/06/hantke06.php (4289 words)

	Invinsible & Das Experiment & Hitler's Childern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Das Experiment shows what happens when twenty men are recruited for a medical experiment involving prisoner and guard roles in a sterile hospital ward.
		But Das Experiment is so clinical and exacting as it slowly ratchets up the stakes and the tension that only after it's over do you realize you've been manipulated as carefully as these sorry prisoners.
		Das Experiment is inspired by the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, a 1971 psychological study in which the human subjects took their roles so seriously that the study was ended after six days, before their increasingly fascist behavior became dangerous.
	www.sparklestreet.com /db+invincible.htm (2198 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Experiment
		In the Zimbardo's experiment, volunteers chosen to be prisoners were hand-cuffed and "arrested" in their homes by participating police officers.
		The experiment was secretly filmed but had to be aborted after only five days as the guards, although eschewing physical violence, had become horrifically despotic and aggressive.
		The horror of Zimbardo's investigation is taken several stages further with sexual assault, sensory deprivation and murder among the evils that the prisoners face.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/experiment.shtml (402 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Das Experiment [2002]: DVD: Moritz Bleibtreu,Christian Berkel,Oliver Stokowski,Wotan Wilke ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yes this experiment was a gross mistake and did cause some serious harm to the participents, however it does not need bad publicty like this to warp the publics impression of psychological research.
		The filmmakers really did their homework on this one: the dignity-robbing dresses the 'prisoners' have to wear, along with the flip-flops so they have to shuffle everywhere, the use of numbers instead of names, the 'guards' deciding to use press-ups as punishment: all of this was based on fact.
		Fortunately the BBC experiment didn't end as violently, but it was still abandoned half-way through because of the psychological effects on the subjects.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Das-Experiment-Moritz-Bleibtreu/dp/B00006AW7T (1568 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Das Experiment'
		Though the experiment had been planned to run for two weeks, it ceased after six days because of abuses by the "guards." (The story is fictionalized in Mario Giordano's novel Black Box; a personal account is available online at http://www.prisonexp.org).
		Das Experiment is most itself--and most repellent--when it turns into a standard prison picture, with a military officer (Christian Berkel) materializing to help our hero.
		Das Experiment (Unrated; 113 min.), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt and Don Bohlinger, photographed by Raine Klausmann and starring Moritz Bleibtreu, opens Friday at the Towne Theater in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.26.02/dasexperiment-0239.html (584 words)

	Show Business Weekly: Review: Film: Das Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The nature of the experiment is explained to Tarek by Dr. Jutta Grimm (Andrea Sawatzki), assistant to the focused and determined Professor Thon (Edgar Selge).
		Das Experiment is an adaptation of the novel Black Box, written by Mario Giordan (a co-writer for the film), which is based on the Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, where nine young men, all university students taking part in the experiment, were arrested in their homes and taken to a makeshift prison.
		The experiment at Stanford was called to a stop when the volunteer guards became sadistic and cruel after the third day.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/193/film_das_experiment.shtml (766 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Das Experiment
		Based on "Black Box," a novel by Mario Giordano, the story's about a government-sponsored research experiment in which volunteers are paid to play roles in a model prison.
		Everyone assumes this two-week experiment will soon be over and everyone will get their check.
		In the end, it looks as if this experiment proves only one thing: People forced to play guards and prisoners tend to end up imitating bad prison movies.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A37842-2002Oct3?language=printer (246 words)

	Das Experiment
		A simple experiment conducted to evaluate the reactions of prisoners and guards in a controlled environment, but instead evolves into a psychological and deadly Pandora’s box.
		Based on the Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, which was commissioned to evaluate the human aspect of control and power, “DAS Experiment” depicts the results in a frightful reality of prison life.
		From the very onset, the movie captures one’s interest with the curiosity of the experiment, but as time progresses this curiosity evolves into the dark desire to see what depths of degradation the prisoners are exposed to.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /das.htm (528 words)

	Amazon.com: Das Experiment: DVD: Moritz Bleibtreu,Christian Berkel,Oliver Stokowski,Wotan Wilke Möhring,Stephan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The "experiment" is conducted as follows: 20 participants are divided into to groups, 8 "guards" and 12 "prisoners." The former group were given uniform, handcuffs and other equipments while the latter are required to live in a small cell, wearing only a long white jacket.
		The participants for that experiment, like in the movie, were recruited via a newspaper ad which offered compensation for participating in a two-week experiment whereby some of the participants would be relegated to the role of a prison guard and the rest to the role of a prisoner.
		Like in the Stanford University experiment, the scientists in the movie version created a life-like prison, and the guards were given a number of rules (around or exactly 6 in the movie) that they were told to be sure that the prisoners follow.
	www.amazon.com /Das-Experiment-Moritz-Bleibtreu/dp/B00006AW7T (2424 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Das Experiment" (The Experiment) review (2002) Oliver Hirschbiegel, Moritz Bleibtreu
		Psychologically resounding but bedeviled by somewhat preposterous plot developments, "Das Experiment" is a German thriller loosely inspired by a Stanford University study in which volunteers were placed as guards and inmates in a mock prison to see how they'd interact.
		But with the guards riled up and the professors who are running the experiment ill-prepared to maintain control, push-ups and humiliation punishments soon turn into beatings and worse.
		This compounding lack of common sense (along with other, more nit-picky plot problems) eventually overwhelms the movie's provocative mood to such a degree that in the end "Das Experiment" is far more irritating than disturbing.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/dasexperiment.html (448 words)

	Zimbardo prison experiment: 8/01
		Strip searched, sprayed for lice and locked up with chains around their ankles, the "prisoners" were part of an experiment to test people's reactions to power dynamics in social situations.
		They are as bad for the guards as they are for the prisoners," he said, pointing to results of his experiment showing that both guards' and prisoners' personalities were warped by their given roles.
		What drives much of the fascination with the experiment is the sense that any individual could become a brutal dictator if given the chance.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2001/august22/prison2-822.html (1119 words)

	KINNOPIO - Das Experiment
		More than a year before I saw Das Experiment, I wrote that one of the essentials of a great movie is its ability to completely immerse the viewer.
		The background is this: In August 1971, Stanford researchers planned a two-week experiment that arbitrarily divided a group of twenty-four young men into two categories, guards and prisoners.
		The only substantial fault of Das Experiment is that it never bothers to mention what that might be, although it's not as if the audience needs any help, having already become addicted to the same cruelties witnessed nightly on reality television shows.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2002/experiment.htm (926 words)

	Das Experiment Movie Homepage
		Das Experiment (2001)/####/* A psychological experiment** in which test subjects are divided into "prisoners" and "guards" spins out of control when the "guards" take their authority a little too seriously.
		Student volunteers were asked to role-play as "prisoners" and "guards" in a mock prison situation for two weeks, as part of a study intended to explore the psychology of imprisonment.
		In this fictionalized German version of the experiment depicted here, however, the overseeing academic authority is momentarily distracted, and so it goes further--to its logical barbaric conclusion.
	www.missliberty.com /Filmdasexp.html (497 words)

	Das Experiment
		"Das Experiment" offers a depressing insight into human nature, asserting that, when backed in a corner, man will revert to animalistic behavior.
		Winner of several Bavarian Film Awards, including best screenplay, director and cinematography, "Das Experiment" is a riveting commentary not without flaws.
		Viewers should brush aside weak plot lines (the ridiculous appearance of a screwdriver, the illogic of both researchers abandoning the facility at a crucial time in the experiment, and Tarek's obvious preoccupation with his "glasses") and flimsy character development (Dora who?).
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /holiday2002/id1648.htm (466 words)

	Das Experiment - Newsday.com
		Ergo, when a movie like "Das Experiment" sets up one group of men as guards, another as prisoners, and pits them against each other for two weeks in a simulated prison, there doesn't seem to be much question about what's going to happen.
		That "Das Experiment" - the debut feature of TV director Oliver Hirschbiegel and adapted from the Mario Giordano novel "Black Box" - is a German film certainly ratchets up the level of political potency in a story about what authority does and doesn't do for the human soul.
		You also have to get around the fact that it is Tarek, in an effort to get a more sensational story, who provokes his "captors" and that we don't really know enough about the rules or the motivations of the men to make their persistence in the project make sense.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/movies/ny-dasexperiment,0,7756770.story (579 words)

	'Das Experiment' heads for America - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Oliver Hirschbiegel's 'Das Experiment' was one of the most disturbing and effective thrillers of the last few years, so it's no surprise that the film is about to undergo the remake treatment.
		What is a surprise however, is that Paul Scheuring, creator of the absurd TV drama 'Prison Break', will write and direct the film; a dramatic change of pace for a man who turned the most implausible of concepts into television gold.
		The original 'Experiment' was loosely based on the Stanford University prison psychology tests that took place in America in the 1970s, in which a random group of men were selected and turned into either jailers or prisoners.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/1443.html (369 words)

	Das Experiment: a new, chilling kind of prison drama. - By Bryan Curtis - Slate Magazine
		Das Experiment: a new, chilling kind of prison drama.
		He should have had the scientists halt the experiment at the halfway point and tell the subjects to switch roles: The prisoners would become the guards and the guards the prisoners.
		We don't recommend that you try replicating the experiment at home, but if you do, this jail products supplier will keep you stocked with uniforms, restraints, and even a padded cell.
	www.slate.com /?id=2070869 (1155 words)

	Das Podkletnov-Experiment
		In its latest experiments, the team has measured a two per cent drop in the weight of objects suspended over the device - and double that if one device is suspended over another.
		Auf die Aussage von Petri Vourinen hin angesprochen, meinte Podkletnov, daß hier wohl eine Verwechselung oder eine Namensgleicheit vorläge und daß es noch einen zweiten Petri Vourinen in Tampere gegeben habe, der an Supraleitern geforscht und bei dem Experiment mitgewirkt habe, jetzt aber in Japan arbeite.
		Auf Gerüchte, daß ein Teil von Podkletnovs Arbeiten vom finnischen Militär fianziert worden wäre, meinte Tiainen, daß er davon gehört hätte, dies aber nicht der Wahrheit entspräche.
	www.borderlands.de /gravity.finland.php3 (1876 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Experiment (Das Experiment)
		Inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, a notorious real-life study of power dynamics in social situations, what begins as an innocent exercise in role-playing soon turns nasty as the 'guards' employ increasingly questionable methods to stamp their bogus authority on their rebellious charges.
		Far-fetched it may be but "The Experiment" makes for uncomfortable viewing - not least for its implication that the same impulses that fuelled the Nazi movement still lurk in the darkest recesses of the German psyche.
		Such inflammatory ambiguities make it easier to forgive the hysterical excesses of the latter stages, though not a brutal rape scene that is far too lurid for comfort.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2002/03/15/the_experiment_2002_review.shtml (374 words)

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