I saw this movie a long while ago. Recently when I was wandering in Rotterdam I went to the musicshop Sounds, you never know whether there is some (new) interesting music CD to buy there. Didn’t find any intersting CD this time. But in their little DVD-section they have a lot of interesting DVD-movies. This time Das Experiment was standing there, so I bought it.

The movie is based on a real experiment in the past done by the Stanford University. A quote from the Stanford Prison Experiment site:

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.

Definitely worth viewing, because the movie shows you about what happened in the real Stanford Experiment, although not everything is exactly the same as it was in reality.