When director Oliver Hirschbiegel met with Disney executives a few months ago to discuss possible projects, he says, “I told them I really want to do a kids’ movie. They didn’t believe me. They ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s fair to say that my memory of 2002 isn’t that clear. Being in my second year of university (the one where you say I’ll try hard next year) and enjoying my first real festival (Glasto 2002! Wooo!) ...

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 ...

In August 1971, 24 male volunteers arrived at a prison in Palo Alto, Calif., to participate in a Stanford-backed psych experiment. The men were divided into two groups—12 prisoners and 12 guards—and ...

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Although Das Experiment isn't quite as good as its ideas, it's still pretty good and manages to deliver an unsettling yet entertaining meditation on the mechanisms of power in human relationships.

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 ...