Young Törless

Year: 1966

Runtime: 87 mins

Language: German

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Drama

Set in an Austrian boys’ boarding school at the turn of the 20th century, shy, intellectual Törless watches his peers engage in cruel, sadistic games, remaining passive as a classmate is tormented, until the abuse escalates beyond what he can endure. Based on Robert Musil’s celebrated novel, the film helped launch the New German Cinema movement and earned the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 1966, marking director Volker Schlöndorff’s debut.

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