The Marsh presents DIE WELLE (The Wave) May 22 at the JCC

The Marsh presents DIE WELLE (The Wave)

“DIE WELLE (The Wave) is chilling … seductive and horrifying – an assured piece of film making.” Variety Jan 30, 2008

“DIE WELLE (The Wave) opens with a rush of energy and doesn’t let up!” Variety Jan 30, 2008

“It can happen again…Don’t miss DIE WELLE (The Wave) Der Spiegel…March 2008

The Marsh presents DIE WELLE (The Wave)

DIE WELLE plays on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm in Kanbar Hall at The Jewish Community Center, 3200 California Street. This is the only Bay Area screening of this film.

Tickets are $20. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org. This is a fundraiser for THE MARSH and its new elevator which provides wheelchair access to the upstairs studio theater.

This award winning feature film describes a classroom experiment in fascism conducted in 1968 by Marsh performer Ron Jones, who was then a history teacher at Cubberly High School in Palo Alto. Jones found it difficult to explain to his students how Nazi Germany could have happened and how easily it might happen again. So, during a five-day period, he led them to renounce their freedom in exchange for the prospect of becoming a group superior to their other school mates. He starts by making them sit up straight and stand before answering questions. Almost before he knew what was happening, the experiment gets out of control.

Following the film Barbara Lane, JCC Director Of Lectures and Literature, will lead a Q & A discussion with Ron Jones and students that were in the experiment.