«Эксперимент 2: Волна» (нем. Die Welle — «Волна»)

«Эксперимент 2: Волна» (нем. Die Welle — «Волна») — художественный фильм режиссёра Денниса Ганзеля, вышедший на экраны в 2008 году.
Фильм снят по книге Тодда Страссера (англ.) «Волна (англ.)». Книга была написана в 1981 году по мотивам вышедшего в том же году одноимённого фильма (англ.). В основе всех этих произведений — реальный эксперимент «Третья волна», произведённый учителем истории Роном Джонсом (англ.) в городе Пало-Альто в Калифорнии.




В немецкой гимназии проводится специальный проект: в течение недели ученики будут изучать одну из политических систем по собственному выбору. Учитель Райнер Венгер (Юрген Фогель) хотел бы провести курс Анархии, близкой ему по духу, но ему достаётся Автократия. Пришедшие на занятие ученики не верят, что в современной Германии может быть установлена диктатура. Венгер начинает эксперимент, призванный показать, как легко можно манипулировать массами.

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Sweet Rain / Shinigami no seido /Accuracy of Death (2008)

Sweet Rain: Shinigami no Seido (Sweet Rain 死神の精度, lit. "The precision of the agent of death") is a 2008 Japanese movie based on a Kotaro Isaka novel and directed by Masaya Kakehi.
CAST:
* Takeshi Kaneshiro
* Manami Konishi
* Sumiko Fuji

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Kotaro Isaka “The Accuracy of Death”. Chiba (Takeshi Kaneshiro) appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Getting his work quickly out of the way, he goes to the listening booth of a CD shop and indulges in his favorite pastime, listening to ‘humanity’s greatest invention’: music.

He is...a Grim Reaper. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki (Manami Konishi), 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.

Book/Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

This article is about the 1997 book. For the 2007 film, see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film).
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Author Jean-Dominique Bauby
Country France
Language French
Genre(s) Autobiography, Memoir
Publication date March 6, 1997


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a translation of the French memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome. It also details what his life was like before the stroke.

On December 8, 1995, Bauby, the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings but physically paralyzed with the exception of some movement in his head and eyes (one of which had to be sewn up due to an irrigation problem). The entire book was written by Bauby blinking his left eyelid, which took ten months (four hours a day). A transcriber repeatedly recited a French language frequency-ordered alphabet (E, S, A, R, I, N, T, U, L, etc.), until Bauby blinked to choose the next letter. The book took about 200,000 blinks to write and an average word took approximately two minutes. The book also chronicles everyday events for a person with locked-in syndrome. These events include playing at the beach with his family, getting a bath, and meeting visitors.

In 2007 the book was adapted into a feature film of the same name, directed by Julian Schnabel, written by Ronald Harwood and starring Mathieu Amalric as Bauby. Julian Schnabel won best director that year at the Cannes Film Festival.[3] The film was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2008 for directing, cinematography, editing and writing.[4] It would go on to win numerous international awards, including a BAFTA for adapted screenplay, and Golden Globes for best foreign language film and best director.[5][6]

Since the film's release, a number of Bauby's friends have gone on record saying that several aspects of Bauby's personal life were fictionalized in Schnabel's film, most notably his relationships with the mother of his children and his girlfriend.[7]

While Bauby was still alive, French director Jean-Jacques Beineix made a 25-minute film, "Assigné à résidence" (or "House Arrest"), that captured Bauby in his paralysed state, and the process of the book's composition (WIKI)

Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Director(s)
Julian Schnabel

Distributor(s)
Miramax