Experimenter
“Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.”
6.5
2015
1h 37m
DramaHistory
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.
Key Crew
Director
Michael Almereyda
Producers
Per Melita
Isen Robbins
Uri Singer
Writers
Michael Almereyda
Cinematography
Ryan Samul
Music
Bryan Senti
Cast (78)
Peter Sarsgaard
Stanley Milgram
Winona Ryder
Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
