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Coming-of-age New German Cinema drama set at an Austrian military academy at the turn of the 20th century from legendary...
Coming-of-age New German Cinema drama set at an Austrian military academy at the turn of the 20th century from legendary auteur Volker Schlöndorff. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, 1966.
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. 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 analysing their behaviour.
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100 %6 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
85 %64 reviewsAudience score rating
"Beautifully acted, this bitter little anecdote is all the better in that Schlöndorff, sticking to the disturbing rites and mercurial friendships of the boarding-school world, resists the temptation to dress up its prophetic intimations of Nazism."
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Time Out
Time Out"A very austere, very composed and, in a barren sort of way, a quite beautiful movie about the cruelty of man."
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The New York Times
The New York TimesYoung Torless | Details
Award winner- Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize (Schlöndorff), 1966 Cannes Film Festival)
- Rating
- R18,
- Runtime
- 87
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- West Germany, France
