The Wave (1981)

I love this movie so much

i must have seen a different film!!

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Saw it twenty years ago and still one of the best psychological movies ever made. It should be mandatory watching at every school.For those who did not see it yet, it depicts the danger of crowd/group thinking and how really dangerous charismatic people are. They can sway otherwise normally thinking people to their way, without these people being aware of it! Few of famous/infamous very charismatic people are: Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Clinton, Yassir Arafat, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Stalin, Hitler, Lenin. Go figure.For those of you, who have it, let me know how did you get hold of it. I'd like to buy it, but it's nowhere to be found.

I saw this movie at a time when I was beginning to question the importance of fitting in, while most kids my age were still desperately seeking to belong. Many may argue otherwise, but I saw it as an ABC Afterschool Special.The plot of this movie has already been explained enough here, and the incidents are based on a true story -- A group of high school kids wonder how people in Germany could fall for the lies of Adolf Hitler, and inadvertently become pawns in a teacher's experiment that clearly displays how. Of course, the truth is that even militaristic fringe groups like the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and similar organizations aren't the only groups that feed upon the alleged human need to belong to force their collective will on people. Any youth-oriented clique can be repressive and destructive, but the only ones parents and other adults seem to fear are the burnouts and gangs. Jocks, preppies, and even geeks can be just as repressive. Four years later in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, when Molly Ringwald told Judd Nelson "Only burnouts like you get high," the truth about a bunch of Metro New York preppies and THEIR drug habits were being revealed after one of them killed his girlfriend in Central Park. What makes this movie so special is that it urges teenagers to decide their own values, hold onto them, and never to fall into the trap of "group-think." Nearly 15 years earlier, a fictional teacher made a similar observation -- "If you deny who you are, what you know, or who you know, you deny the simplest part of being alive, and then you die." More than 20 years later, a two-dimensional teenage girl would say it so much better --"Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience proves you wrong." Good lessons for all.

This movie had a great impact on me. Having personally been a victim of peer abuse, it really opened up my eyes as to what kind of effect a 'cult' can play on an individual. This concept not only explains how Hitler managed to be so successful in manipulating the whole country, but also clarifies many other historical events. I would recommend this to anyone who has not seen the movie!

The Wave was the first movie I ever made. I pitched the project to ABC and plunged forward. As an After School Special it was done on a very low budget, roughly $250,000 when an average Prime Time hour in those days was done for roughly $1,000,000. All acting and writing was done for scale fees and the number of shooting days were very few to hold down costs, As I remember it shot in 8 days. When ABC saw the final show they took it out of the After School slot and aired it in prime time against 60 Minutes on Sunday night. Needless to say the ratings were very low, but even at that, back in those days about 17 million people saw it in the States. And since then millions more have seen it around the world. I'm proud of the show and the message it delivers. As the years have gone by production styles and social behaviors have shifted, that's just the way it is. So be it, the show still seems to have legs. :>>