Sundance announced it’s competition films earlier today. I noticed an interesting German entry called THE WAVE. I read the Sundance press release and recognized the title and plot instantly. I remembered seeing a TV movie of the same name back when I was in middle school. I found it odd that Sundance didn’t give nods to the American film that preceded it. There’s a link to view the American film in its entirety on this fan site hosted in Turkey. They mis-credit the director as being Norman Lear (The Jeffersons). The true director is Alexander Grasshoff (FUTURE SHOCK). I remember that American film pretty well cause they taught it in Hebrew school. Anybody else see the original?
November 29, 2007 at 5:45 am
I did! I did! It was like a really long, really melodramatic afterschool special. I think we had to watch it for school too. Of course, I was in junior high at the time.
I still have memories of Bruce Davison first explaining the new social experiment to his class, and then the big reveal when he shows them newsreel footage of Hitler. So heavy!
November 29, 2007 at 5:46 am
(Maybe the next thing will be for someone to remake the ’80s nuclear war TV drama THE DAY AFTER…)
November 30, 2007 at 3:44 am
Yeah I saw it too. Next: “Stop Drop and Roll, The Musical” ??