At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Drama
Release:
May 1966
Production:
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)
Cast:
Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz, Lotte Ledl, Jean Launay, Barbara Steele, Hanna Axmann-Rezzori, Herbert Asmodi, Fritz Gehlen
Tags:
boarding school, mathematics, bullying, torture, austria-hungary, lgbt, corporal punishment, military academy, 20th century, good and evil, imaginary numbers
