Title: The Wave (2008 film)
Content:  The Wave (Die Welle) is a 2008 German socio-political thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. It is based on Ron Jones' social experiment The Third Wave and Todd Strasser's novel, The Wave. The film was produced by Christian Becker for Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The movie was successful in German cinemas, and 2.3 million people watched it during the first ten weeks of its release.
Title: The Wave (2019 film)
Content:  The Wave is a 2019 film directed by Gille Klabin distributed by Epic Pictures.
Title: The Wave (2019 film)
Content: Tommy Flanagan as Aeolus ; Justin Long as Frank ; Sheila Vand as Theresa ; Donald Faison as Jeff ; Katia Winter as Natalie ; Bill Sage as Jonas ; Sarah Minnich as Cheryl ; Ronnie Gene Blevins as Ritchie ; Carl W. Lucas as Big Jesus 
Title: The Wave (1981 film)
Content:  The Wave is a made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment put on by teacher Ron Jones to explain to his students how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It debuted October 4, 1981, almost two years and later as an ABC Afterschool Special. It starred Bruce Davison as the teacher Ben Ross, a character based on Jones.
Title: The Wave (2015 film)
Content:  average score of 68 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The special effects were lauded by critics, receiving favorable comparison with those of Hollywood. Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called them "convincingly terrifying and involving." Collider reviewed, "...a major technical achievement that will hopefully make Hollywood reconsider the tendency to go bigger and bigger to the point of excess." The English-language audio dub, however, was panned by critics. Kelli Marchman of HorrorFuel.com wrote "the voice-over was horrid. The timing was off, and the character's voices were emotionless. It sounded like the lines were being read off of a script by a robot, with no concern of how the characters came across" before recommending the movie only in its original Norwegian.
Title: Wave!!
Content:  The project was first announced in October 2018. In May 2020, it was revealed the anime project would be a three-part theatrical film series. It was also announced to be created by Mages and produced by Asahi Production, with direction by Takaharu Ozaki, scripts by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, character designs by Yomi Sarachi, and music by Akio Dobashi. The films were released on October 2, October 16, and October 30, 2021, respectively. The films' main theme is "Densetsu no Surf Prince", performed by the eight main cast members under the name Naminori Boys.
Title: The Wave (2008 film)
Content:  on the viewers to make them interested in The Wave and by doing so show the powerful attraction such a movement can have. He chose Jürgen Vogel as the leading actor because he wanted someone he himself would have liked to have as a teacher, for Vogel brought with him real life experience and a certain kind of authority. In Gansel's own schooldays it had been these kind of teachers whom he had trusted the most. Gansel, whose grandfather had been a Wehrmacht officer, also announced that this film would be the first and last one concerning the topic of the Third Reich in his career as a director.
Title: The Wave (2008 film)
Content:  an upper-class student who clashes with The Wave at first until he joins the group for social reasons as he loses his status. ; Jacob Matschenz as Dennis, a student who comes from the GDR. He becomes a member of The Wave, like most of his classmates. ; Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow as Ferdi ; Tim Oliver Schultz as Jens ; Amelie Kiefer as Mona ; Odine Johne as Maja ; Fabian Preger as Kaschi ; Tino Mewes as Schädel ; Maxwell Richter as Anarchist ; Liv Lisa Fries as Laura ; Alexander Held as Tim's father ; Johanna Gastdorf as Tim's mother ; Dennis Gansel as Martin ; Maren Kroymann as Dr. Kohlhage 
Title: Tatsushi Ōmori
Content: Wave (2001) (directed by Hiroshi Okuhara) 
Title: The Wave (2008 film)
Content:  When the movie was released the publisher Die Broschüre provided schools with material to help teachers "to prepare the visit to the movie theater“ as well as "reviewing it afterwards“. Furthermore, an official novel corresponding to the movie, written by Kerstin Winter, was published. The Wave was released with 279 copies in Germany on 13 March 2008. One day later it was first screened in Austrian movie theaters. Overall the movie attracted 2.5 million German viewers. [46] The Wave received an award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frederick Lau) and the Bronze Lola in the category Best Feature Film at the German Film Awards in 2008 (Deutscher Filmpreis). Furthermore, Ueli Christen was nominated in the category Best Editing. In the same minute lead actor Jürgen Vogel was nominated in the category Best Actor at the European Film Awards 2008. Moreover, The Wave was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema - Dramatic section without receiving an award. The movie was also shortlisted for the seating contest of a German airbender for the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film, but lost out to The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Question: Who was the director of The Wave?
Answer: Alex Grasshoff.
Alexander Grasshoff.