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Das Experiment (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• Based on a true story, Professor Philip Zimbardo's "Stanford Prison Experiment".
  
  
• Although no one died in the Stanford Prison Experiment on which the movie was based, the experiment was prematurely ended after six days out of a planned two weeks. The college students assigned to be prisoners was "withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways" as a result of the degrading treatment they received. Quite a few scenes in the movie actually happened in the original experiment, including the early fire extinguisher scene and the prisoners being forced to clean the toilets by their bare hands.
  
  
• Filmed in chronological order.
  
  
• Christian Berkel originally auditioned for the part of Schütte but was then cast as Steinhoff.
  
  
• Oliver Stokowski (Schütte) is actually claustrophobic. In an early scene where the prisoners are crammed into the elevator, a hint of his genuine uneasiness is visible.
  
  

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