While rewatching "Das Experiment" for the first time after several years, I noticed two things:
- It still is a very good movie that has aged really well (and on the technical side, it has some interesting camera work)!
- There are a few forced undressing scenes I forgot in my first post about the movie. After being repeatedly joked at by the prisoners, the guards conclude that the best way to gain and maintain control over the prison is humiliation. And one of their favourite ways to inflict it, is keeping the prisoners naked from time to time. And here we go:
During a riot, the guards storm the cells and spray the prisoners with a fire extinguisher (which is freezing cold). Then they remove the beds from the cells and command the prisoners to strip. The main character Tarek, who was the initiator of the riot, is chained to the bars in the yard. The prisoners spend the better part of the night naked on the cold prison floor.
The next day, one of the prisoners has a nervous breakdown and says that he wants to leave the experiment - a whish that is denied by the scientists. The guards then let him stand naked in the yard for everyone else to see. On his back, there is a sign taped that says "wimp".
As the movie moves on, the guards get more and more sadistic and generous with their punishments. Tarek is even punished once although he hasn't broken any prison rule this time. He has to scrub the toilet clean with his prisoner uniform (which he has to put back on after that).