The film The Wave is inspired by a true story about a pedagogical project that is supposed to make students in a high school aware of the dangers of recreating a totalitarian movement. The evolution over several days of the Wave’s experiment, with its sometimes warlike outbursts, shows how the issues of a teacher’s very particular individual project intertwine with issues inherent to adolescence and with the force of group phenomena and their accompanying regressive consequences.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 182-192.