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Der junge Törless (1966)
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22 July 1968 (USA)
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At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates...
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(Credited cast) | Mathieu Carrière | ... | Thomas Törless |
| Marian Seidowsky | ... | Anselm von Basini |
| Bernd Tischer | ... | Beineberg |
| Fred Dietz | ... | Reiting |
| Lotte Ledl | ... | Gastwirtin / Innkeeper |
| Jean Launay | ... | Mathematiklehrer / Maths Teacher |
| Barbara Steele | ... | Bozena |
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Germany:87 min | Argentina:90 min
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The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival when it was first released and signaled the beginning of a German cinematic revival. The book was written in 1906 and is a tedious read, although thankfully a short book. Homosexuality plays a large role in the book but virtually does not exist in the movie. Torless, a horny teenager in an all boys school, eventually has a torrid sexual affair with one of the students. The movie chooses to ignore this, and maybe for good reason as it was released in I believe in 1966. Filmed in black and white, the lack of color contributes to the atmosphere of German austerity that director uses to his advantage. The final speech by Torless is a brilliant defense for the lack of opposition by the middle class to the rise of Hitler. Most of the teenagers in the movie were not aspiring actors but were chosen almost at random for their roles. But considering the time in which it was produced this is a land mark film, especially for German cinema. The movie is much more entertaining than the book and the director,Volker Schlondorff, did a fabulous job and deserves the awards it was given.