Experimenter
Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
- Drama
- History
Overview
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Keywords
- breaking the fourth wall
- experiment
- biography
- psychology
- controversy
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 16, 2015
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- FJ Productions,BB Film Productions
- Cast
- Peter Sarsgaard,Winona Ryder,Jim Gaffigan,Edoardo Ballerini,John Palladino,Kellan Lutz,Dennis Haysbert,Danny A. Abeckaser,Taryn Manning,Anthony Edwardsand 68 more
- Director
- Michael Almereyda
- Writer
- Michael Almereyda
- Producer
- Uri Singer,Michael Almereyda,Danny A. Abeckaser,Per Melita,Isen Robbins,Fabio Golombek,Aimee Schoof
- Cinematography
- Ryan Samul
- Music
- Bryan Senti
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $224,145
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt3726704