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      • To a certain extent, yes. The movie, and the book that inspired it, is loosely based on the real-life Stanford prison experiment conducted in 1971.
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  2. Is this movie based on a true story? To a certain extent, yes. The movie, and the book that inspired it, is loosely based on the real-life Stanford prison experiment conducted in 1971.

  3. Sep 19, 2002 · In “Das Experiment,” cabdriver and former journalist Tarek (Moritz Bleibtreu) sees an ad seeking volunteers for a psychology experiment that will set up a mock prison. Intrigued by the cash...

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  4. Inspired by the real life Stanford Prison Experiments of the 1970s and based on the novel Black Box by Mario Giordano, Das Experiment is a psychic explosion of a movie--a film as difficult to watch as to stop watching.

  5. Before Downfall, there was Das Experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2001 study of claustrophobia and the misuse of power. Based on a true story, the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971, the film tells the story of 20 men who volunteer to be placed into a makeshift prison for 12 days.

  6. Sep 18, 2002 · Based on Mario Giordano’s novel “Black Box,” “Das Experiment” originally included the statement that it was “inspired by” the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by psychology...

  7. This film is based upon an actual experiment conducted by Dr. Philip Lombardo at Stanford University back in 1971. Lombardo reportedly terminated the exercise early, as the “guards” turned fascistic extremely quickly, meaning this film’s story is NOT, as some critics have ignorantly concluded, sensational and unrealistic.

  8. Sep 13, 2002 · In August 1971, 24 male volunteers arrived at a prison in Palo Alto, Calif., to participate in a Stanford-backed psych experiment.

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