Young Torless ( Der junge Törless )

Young Torless (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Der junge Törless
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1966 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Volker Schlöndorff

Written By:
Robert Musil
Herbert Asmodi

Actors:
Mathieu Carrière ..... Thomas Törless
Marian Seidowsky ..... Anselm von Basini
Bernd Tischer ..... Beineberg
Fred Dietz ..... Reiting
Lotte Ledl ..... Gastwirtin
Jean Launay ..... Mathematiklehrer
Barbara Steele ..... Bozena

Synopsis:

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. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school authorities, they will punish him themselves and proceed to torture, degrade, and humiliate the boy, with ever-increasing sadistic delight. As each day passes, the two boys are able to justify harsher treatment than previously given. Torless is a passive member of the group but observes rather than participates and frustrates the tormentors by dryly analyzing their behavior.

Törless is a student at Prince Eugen Boarding School. In addition to being homesick, he, a cerebral young man, doesn't much like it there, feeling he isn't learning what he needs for his life. In that cerebral state, he is usually the observer rather the participant in many of the activities with his friend, Beineberg, such as their joint visits with Bozena, a local prostitute. He learns that one of his fellow students, Basini, has stolen some money from Beineberg to pay off a debt to another student, Reiting, the theft to which Basini eventually admits. While Törless believes the best course of action is to report Basini to the school authorities for them to deal with him as they see fit, Reiting and Beineberg instead decide to deal with Basini in their own way. Beineberg and Törless talk philosophically about what they will do to Basini, treating it as an emotionless academic exercise. Beineberg in addition wants to see just how far he can push Basini before breaking him. But as Törless watches Beineberg and Reiting exact their form of punishment, each time the torture, both physical and emotional, being more sadistic with no end in sight, Törless comes to a conclusion about not only what he thinks of his fellow classmates, but of the school as a whole.

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