Das Experiment

Das Experiment
Theatrical release poster
Directed byOliver Hirschbiegel
Written byMario Giordano
Don Bohlinger
Christoper Darnstädt
Based onBlack Box
by Mario Giordano
Produced byMarc Conrad
Norbert Preuss
Friedrich Wildfeuer
StarringMoritz Bleibtreu
Justus von Dohnányi
Christian Berkel
Oliver Stokowski
Andrea Sawatzki
CinematographyRainer Klausmann
Edited byHans Funck
Music byAlexander Bubenheim
Production
companies
Fanes Film
Senator Film Produktion
Seven Pictures
Typhoon
Distributed bySenator Film
Release date
  • 7 March 2001 (2001-03-07)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Box officeUS$11.6 million[1]

Das Experiment (English: The Experiment) is a 2001 German drama thriller film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and deals with a social experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment of 1971.