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Zagreb Film Festival
19 - 25 October 2008
Address
ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Telephone
385 1 48 29 477
Fax
385 1 45 93 691
e-mail
info@zagrebfilmfestival.com
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03.10.2008
The Wave among the Great 5 |
How could have the Germans claimed they knew nothing about the Holocaust after World War 2? This question troubled Ron Jones, a young American professor in the 1960s. The same question led him to risky experimenting with fascism that he conducted in one of his classes. As a part of a high-school project ‘Third wave’ in the Cubberly high school in Palo Alto during 1967, Jones started teaching his pupils discipline. He decided to teach them how to sit up straight and breathe correctly.
During the experiment, pupils addressed to him as ‘Mister Jones’, had to stand up to answer questions, salute and yell slogans. To his great surprise, 15-year old students who were raised in the spirit of civil rights and free-minded 1960s were more than enthusiastic with his strict regime and were highly motivated to study. But at one point everything went wrong.
The story of professor Jones was told in the book ‘Wave’ by Morton Ruhe that has been mandatory reading in many German schools for the past 20 years, and this year a movie The Wave (Die Welle) was directed by Dennis Gansel which you will be able to see in the side program Great 5 on the 6th ZFF. You can check out the trailer for the film on the official site, and read the interview with professor Jones, who assisted in making of the film, in the Guardian.
Dennis Gansel was born in 1973 in Hanover. He made his first film in 1999, a political thriller about RAF; 'The Phantom'. His first theatre piece, a teenage sexy comedy ‘Girls on Top’ in 2001 was a great commercial success. 'The Wave' is among candidates for the 2008 European film academy jury award. |
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