“Das Experiment” was already a box-office smash at home in Germany, thanks in part to the star power of Bleibtreu (“Run Lola Run“). Samuel Goldwyn released “Das Experiment” in the U.S. today.

What it is: A German film about a two-week psychological experiment that goes awry. Test subjects assigned to play guards mutiny and then torture subjects assigned to play prisoners; one prisoner is ...

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Das Experiment , from a screenplay by Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt and Don Bohlinger, based on the novel Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Das Experiment , from a screenplay by Mario ...

Now this should be a very interesting cast. Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet have all joined The Experiment, a remake of the German psychological thriller Das Experiment.

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Disturbing fact-based study of a psychological exercise in which college students are hired to act as guards and prisoners. Moritz Bleibtreu stars as a journalist who infiltrates the project and ...

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A scientist stages a sociological experiment, recruiting 20 subjects and making 8 of them guards and 12 prisoners. Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) directed this German feature, adapted by Mario ...