Two weeks after its release in German theatres on March 13, Dennis Gansel’s The Wave [trailer], which was lauded at the Sundance Festival, has exceeded the 1m admissions mark.

This film transposes into a German setting the revealing educational experiment carried out in California in the 1960s by a teacher (played here by Jürgen Vogel) who managed to transform his pupils into a fascist faction without them realising.
The Wave was produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion and is being distributed by Constantin.

Last weekend, the film topped the box-office rankings, ahead of the US title Horton Hears a Who, with 309,000 admissions out of a total 1,925,000 for the whole week-end (according to figures published by Kinozeit).