A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
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| Production | Christian Becker | Producer |
| Production | Nina Maag | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Dennis Gansel | Director |
| Writing | Peter Thorwarth | Screenplay |
| Writing | Dennis Gansel | Screenplay |
| Camera | Torsten Breuer | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ivana Milos | Costume Design |
| Sound | Heiko Maile | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Ueli Christen | Editor |
| Production | Ulrike Fauth | Production Manager |
| Production | Martin Moszkowicz | Co-Producer |
| Production | David Groenewold | Co-Producer |
| Production | Antonio Exacoustos | Co-Producer |
| Production | Franziska Aigner | Casting |
| Art | Knut Loewe | Production Design |
| Sound | Alexander Saal | Sound Designer |
| Crew | Dierk Beck von Rohland | Post Production Supervisor |
| Directing | Hendrik Holler | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Hendrik Holler | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | Jan Birka | Continuity |
| Camera | Conny Klein | Still Photographer |
| Crew | Rainer Werner | Stunt Coordinator |
| Art | Darius Ghanai | Title Designer |
| Sound | Tomas Bastian | ADR Editor |
| Sound | Tomas Bastian | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Tomas Bastian | ADR Supervisor |
| Sound | Jörn Poetzl | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Philipp Sellier | Foley Recordist |
| Writing | Ron Jones | Novel |
| Writing | Johnny Dawkins | Original Film Writer |
