In this riveting psychological thriller based on actual events, university professor Dr Phillip Zimbardo conducts a simulated prison experiment, enlisting the help of 24 students who he divides into prisoners and officers. His goal is to identify and, if possible, understand the cause of violent behaviour in the prison system. The results shock not only Dr Zimbardo, but the entire world. In just a few days, the participants transform from ordinary students to pitiless, power-drunk sadists on the one hand, and timid, submissive victims on the other. In the way he treats the topic and narrates the 45-year-old experiment, the director creates a mood so unsettling, intense and above all believable that at times you forget you are only watching a film. The making of The Stanford Prison Experiment involved Dr Zimbardo himself, and at last year’s Sundance, the film was won best screenplay and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize.