'The Experiment' (Germany)

The fine line between play-acting and reality is blurred beyond recognition in Das Experiment (2001). Tarek Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu), a journalist making ends meet by driving a taxi, sees an advertisement offering 4,000 marks to people willing to submit to a psychological experiment. He arrives to discover that half of the volunteers will pose as prison guards and the other half will be their prisoners. Before long, the behavior of the subjects suggests that the experiment is more than make-believe.

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