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The Social Experiment

Deutschland 2021/2022 Spielfilm

Five friends are lured by a competition into a supposed "Escape Room" adventure. What they don‘t know, however, is that the so-called game is, in fact, a behavioural experiment developed by a psychologist and a computer scientist. The teenagers‘ friendship will be tested to the limit as the escape room starts playing the friends off against each other and confronting them with their deepest fears and weaknesses. A race against time and a battle between life and death begins...

Hamburg Media School graduate Pascal Schröder‘s debut feature is the first German feature film to be predominantly shot using the "virtual production" technology which replaces the green screen with an LED studio to create photo-real digital landscapes and sets.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Pascal Schröder

Screenplay

  • Raffaela Kraus
  • Pascal Schröder

Director of photography

  • Daniel Schua

Editing

  • Zenon Kristen

Music

  • Oliver Jensen

Cast

  • Elmo Anton Stratz
    Dustin
  • Marven Gabriel Suarez-Brinkert
    Adrian
  • Raffaela Kraus
    Iris
  • Claudiu Mark Draghici
    Kai
  • Emilia Djalili
    Nancy
  • Thapelo Mashiane
    Neil
  • Gustav Strunz
    Luke
  • Esmael Agostinho
    Shawn
  • Charlotte Beba
    Lotti
  • Ebba Ekholm
    Helferin

Production company

  • Gipfelstürmer Filmproduktion UG (Hamburg)

Producer

  • Pascal Schröder (Creative Producer)
  • Andreas Schlieter
  • Kai Steinmetz
  • Raffaela Kraus (Creative Producer)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Pascal Schröder

Assistant director

  • Nelis Friedrichs
  • Gerrit Magnus Beduhn

Script supervisor

  • Ana Koerner

Screenplay

  • Raffaela Kraus
  • Pascal Schröder

Director of photography

  • Daniel Schua

Assistant camera

  • Florian Hornung

Visual effects

  • Jan Koch (Supervisor)
  • Marco Muñoz (Supervisor)
  • Rafael Casagrande (Compositing Supervisor)
  • Dan Weigl (Virtual Production Producer)
  • Simon Kebeiks (Virtual Production Producer)

Still photography

  • Andreas Schlieter

Lighting design

  • Peter Assmann
  • Max Berg

Key grip

  • Christian Hillig
  • Veronika Mühlenberg

Production design

  • Iris Trescher-Lorenz

Property master

  • Tobias Speiswinkel

Stand-by props

  • Franziska Neisener

Make-up artist

  • Katharina Hachemeister

Costume design

  • Petra Kilian
  • Birgit Turné (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Zenon Kristen

Sound design

  • Stephan Konken

Sound

  • Michael Manzke

Sound assistant

  • Lennart Bollmann

Music

  • Oliver Jensen

Cast

  • Elmo Anton Stratz
    Dustin
  • Marven Gabriel Suarez-Brinkert
    Adrian
  • Raffaela Kraus
    Iris
  • Claudiu Mark Draghici
    Kai
  • Emilia Djalili
    Nancy
  • Thapelo Mashiane
    Neil
  • Gustav Strunz
    Luke
  • Esmael Agostinho
    Shawn
  • Charlotte Beba
    Lotti
  • Ebba Ekholm
    Helferin
  • Jörn Grosse
    Maik
  • Angelina Kamp
    Lina
  • Steven Armin Novak
    Jan
  • Clara Maria Determann
    Wissenschaftlerin
  • Dominik Thätner
    Wissenschaftler

Production company

  • Gipfelstürmer Filmproduktion UG (Hamburg)

in association with

  • PRG Deutschland (Hamburg)
  • Konken Studios (Hamburg)
  • Zeigermann Audio GmbH (Hamburg)
  • Day For Night (Hannover)
  • The Post Republic (Berlin)

Producer

  • Andreas Schlieter
  • Kai Steinmetz
  • Pascal Schröder (Creative Producer)
  • Raffaela Kraus (Creative Producer)

Co-Producer

  • Pascal Schröder
  • Raffaela Kraus

Unit production manager

  • Kai Steinmetz

Location manager

  • Melanie Robben
  • Charlotte Leser (Set)

Production assistant

  • Simone Milde

Original distributor

  • Tobis Film GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin)

Funding

  • MOIN Filmförderung (Hamburg)

Shoot

    • 10.01.2021 - 05.02.2021: Cinegate Studios, Hamburg
Duration:
90 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39 (Cinemascope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 26.04.2022, 213271, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 02.10.2022, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 27.10.2022

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) The Social Experiment

Versions

Original

Duration:
90 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39 (Cinemascope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 26.04.2022, 213271, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 02.10.2022, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 27.10.2022

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/the-social-experiment_3c613d294a1f4fda99d3b1458d6be4c6