Barbara Steele, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz

Based on a heart-wrenching novel by writer Robert Musil, this film, directed by Volker Schlondorff and winner of the International Critics Prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, explores what happens...( read more  read more... ) when a young man named Thomas Törless (Mathieu Carrière), enrolled at a boarding school in the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the war, does nothing to save a boy (Marian Seidowsky) from constant torture by his classmates.

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DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005

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  • August 17, 2009
    Aug 09 - Incredible analysis of fascism, cruelty and passiveness. Can't forget seeing it for the 1st time 12 years ago in the Fajr Festival.
  • September 23, 2006
    It's like 'Dead Poet's Society,' but meaner, grittier, more intimately realized. At once philosophical and heartwrenching and full-on disturbing. Great shit.
  • June 25, 2006
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