German film help

[fozz]

Caught the tail end of a German film, which was based on a true story. The film theme was, volunteers enlisted to be either guards or prisoners and to see if the subjects became submissive or violent. I know the description is vague, but can anyone name the film? Think the experiment was done in the 80s or early 90s...............

[David Fettes]

It is called Das Experiment

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/

[fozz]

film

It is called Das Experiment

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/

Nice 1! Cheers fella.

[Michael Root]

I believe it was UCLA that did something like this back in the 70's, dividing students into roles of either guards or prisoners.
The guards were given instructions to keep order ... it only took like 24hrs before the torturing of prisoners began. I watched a small film on it for a psych class I had 20 years ago, it was very interesting.