Genres: Foreign, Drama, Criterion Collection, Based on Book, Germany, High School, Teenagers, Torture, Troubled Youth, Foreign Drama, German Cinema, Period Pieces
Cast: Mathieu Carriere, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Synopsis: At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Torless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate — until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, YOUNG TORLESS launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.
Language: German
Country of Origin: Germany
Production Year: 1966
- Release Date: Mar 15th, 2005
- Catalog Number: YOU070DVD
- UPC: 037429205327
- Rating: Not Rated
- Run Time: 87
- Color Format: Black & White
- Audio: PCM Mono
- Language: German
- 16:9: Yes
- Aspect Ratio: Other
- Number of Discs: 1
- Closed Captions: No
- Subtitle: English
- Special Features:
2004 video interview with writer-director Volker Schlondorff
Rare presentation of the original score
Original theatrical trailer
Aspect Ration 1.77:1
