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Completed - ENGLISH - Drama - 94 minutes

Log Line

Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authority by using electric shock. We follow Milgr

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2015 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Michael ALMEREYDA
Cast : Peter SARSGAARD, Winona RYDER, Jim GAFFIGAN, Kellan LUTZ, Taryn MANNING

Synopsis

In 1961, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted the "obedience experiments" at Yale University. The experiments observed the responses of ordinary people asked to send harmful electrical shocks to a stranger. Despite pleadings from the person they were shocking, 65 percent of subjects obeyed commands from a lab-coated authority figure to deliver potentially fatal currents. With Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram’s Kafkaesque results hit a nerve, and he was accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster.

Production

Country(ies) : USA

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JAPAN AT ENTERTAINMEN
KOREA (Sou MOVEMENT PICTUR
NETHERLAND Mar 31, 2016 AMSTELFILM
NETHERLAND Mar 31, 2016 PREMIERE TV DIS
POLAND SONOVISION
SWEDEN NONSTOP ENTERTA
UNITED KIN STUDIOCANAL (UK
USA MAGNOLIA PICTUR

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Festivals and Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2015 Premieres


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