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Young Törless (German: Der junge Törless) is a 1966 German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted from the 1906 novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil. It deals with the violent and sadistic tendencies of a group of boys at an Austrian military academy at the beginning of the 20th century.
Young Törless: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz. In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
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- Drama
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1968-07-22
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.
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The Confusions of Young Törless (German: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß), or Young Törless, is the literary debut of the Austrian philosophical novelist and essayist Robert Musil, first published in 1906.
- Robert Musil, Michael Mitchell, Ritchie Robertson
- 1906
With two classmates, Reiting and Beineberg, he visits Bozena, a waitress who provides sexual education for the boys at the school. The days at the academy progress normally until Basini, a self-destructive young boy, steals money from Beineberg's locker.
- Volker Schlöndorff, Herbert Rimbach
- Mathieu Carrière
At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two.
Mar 14, 2005 · Set in the gray and dreary countryside of Neudorf, Young Törless explores the fabric of society through the microcosm of an Austro-Hungarian boarding school for young men, concentrating on the psychological and moral trials of young Thomas Törless as he anxiously moves between the worlds of childhood and adulthood in his new school ...
