TY - ADVS AU - Volker Schlöndorff AU - Carrière,Mathieu AU - Seidowsky,Marian AU - Tischer,Bernd AU - Steele,Barbara AU - Schlöndorff,Volker AU - Henze,Hans Werner AU - Musil,Robert AU - Asmodi,Herbert TI - Der junge Törless: Young Törless SN - 0780029860 AV - PN1997 .J864 1966 PY - 2005/// CY - [United States] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Boarding schools KW - Austria KW - Drama KW - Boys KW - Torture KW - Feature films KW - Motion pictures, German KW - Foreign films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1966; Written and directed by Volker Schlöndorff, based on the novel Der junge Törless by Robert Musil, cinematography by Franz Rath, music by Hans Werner Henze; Matthieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele N2 - Young Törless is to go to boarding school. His experiences there, the merciless torments of the pupils among themselves and the unsatisfactory answers of his teachers make it clear to Törless that good and bad cannot be differentiated in life. The boy leaves the boarding school at his own request after a short while; Young Törless is to go to boarding school. His experiences there, the merciless torments of the pupils among themselves and the unsatisfactory answers of his teachers make it clear to Törless that good and bad cannot be differentiated in life. The boy leaves the boarding school at his own request after a short while. The incipient social and personal deformation in Musil's novel is skillfully implemented by Schlöndorff in close correspondence with the text but also in a more distant manner ER -