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Young Törless

Original title: Der junge Törless
  • 1966
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
2.6K
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Young Törless (1966)
Drama

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.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.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.

  • Director
    • Volker Schlöndorff
  • Writers
    • Robert Musil
    • Herbert Asmodi
    • Volker Schlöndorff
  • Stars
    • Mathieu Carrière
    • Marian Seidowsky
    • Bernd Tischer
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    2.6K
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    • Director
      • Volker Schlöndorff
    • Writers
      • Robert Musil
      • Herbert Asmodi
      • Volker Schlöndorff
    • Stars
      • Mathieu Carrière
      • Marian Seidowsky
      • Bernd Tischer
    • 19User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 2 nominations

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    Young Törless (1966)
    Hanna Axmann-Rezzori and Mathieu Carrière in Young Törless (1966)
    Mathieu Carrière in Young Törless (1966)
    Mathieu Carrière in Young Törless (1966)
    Fred Dietz and Bernd Tischer in Young Törless (1966)
    Marian Seidowsky in Young Törless (1966)
    Mathieu Carrière, Fred Dietz, Marian Seidowsky, and Bernd Tischer in Young Törless (1966)
    Marian Seidowsky in Young Törless (1966)
    Mathieu Carrière and Marian Seidowsky in Young Törless (1966)
    Marian Seidowsky in Young Törless (1966)
    Fred Dietz and Bernd Tischer in Young Törless (1966)
    Mathieu Carrière, Fred Dietz, and Bernd Tischer in Young Törless (1966)

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    Mathieu Carrière
    Mathieu Carrière
    • Thomas Törless
    Marian Seidowsky
    Marian Seidowsky
    • Anselm von Basini
    Bernd Tischer
    Bernd Tischer
    • Beineberg
    Fred Dietz
    • Reiting
    Lotte Ledl
    Lotte Ledl
    • Gastwirtin
    Jean Launay
    Jean Launay
    • Mathematiklehrer
    Barbara Steele
    Barbara Steele
    • Bozena
    Herbert Asmodi
    • Vater Törless
    • (uncredited)
    Hanna Axmann-Rezzori
    Hanna Axmann-Rezzori
    • Mutter Törless
    • (uncredited)
    Fritz Gehlen
    • Direktor
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Volker Schlöndorff
    • Writers
      • Robert Musil
      • Herbert Asmodi
      • Volker Schlöndorff
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    • Trivia
      Luchino Visconti had previously tried to set up a version of " Young Torless " with Romy Schneider starring.
    • Quotes

      Thomas Törless: Yet another day to tell our grandchildren about.

    • Connections
      Featured in Film Review: International Films (1968)

    User reviews19

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    7/10
    just to point out a few things...
    1. It's been said here that the gay content of the story has been removed. Well, the novel was released in 1905. We can nowadays interpret elements of the story in a gay context, but back then these notions did not exist. If Schlöndorff hints at homosexuality as an element of perversion, that is in fact faithful to the novel, which takes a strictly observatory, non-participating stance.

    2. 'Törless' is often interpreted as an indicator of upcoming intolerance and Nazidom. Again, the novel was released at a much too early time to allow for such an interpretation; the novel's author Robert Musil certainly envisioned the inevitable fall of an empire stuck to tradition and incapable of accommodating personal liberties. Schlöndorff pushes some of the juvenile delinquents into similarities with the Nazis - albeit being carefully ambiguous about it -, but it would be wrong to consider this interpretation as a part of the original narrative.

    3. 'Törless' is a highly psychological tale and film - again, Schlöndorff proves faithful to the novel in this respect. But this comes with the weakness of constructing characters around a certain social concept. It would be misleading to consider Törless and his rebellious friends as typical representatives of their era, or real figures upon which the author based his characters. As may be more obvious in Musil's masterpiece, 'The Man without Qualities', his characters are crafted to evoke rather a situation than a person; that makes his books almost impossible to adapt correctly.

    Schlöndorff's film is somewhat middlebrow; it does not intend to be a substitute for reading the novel, but at the same time it carefully avoids to give the impression that it is anything but a rendition of it. That's not quite true; the interpretation is in the framing, the omissions of the subtext, and that the ideas upon watching the film differ considerably from those you get when you read the novel. One may call it therefore a failure - but an interesting failure to watch.
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    • Release date
      • July 22, 1968 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • West Germany
      • France
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Der junge Törless
    • Filming locations
      • Eggenberg Palace, Graz, Styria, Austria(military school)
    • Production companies
      • Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
      • Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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