Der junge Törless [videorecording] = Young Törless / Janus Films ; Nora Filmverleih ; ein Gemeinschaftsproduktion der Franz Seitz Film und der Nouvelles Editions de Films.

By:

Volker Schlöndorff

Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: German Summary language: English Original language: German Subtitle language: English Publication details: [United States] : Criterion Collection, 2005.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

0780029860
9780780029866

Other title:

Young Törless

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Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

PN1997 .J864 1966

Production credits:

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.Summary: 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.Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-C: DVD Cabinet C	PN1997 .J864 1966	Available	000993
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-C: DVD Cabinet C	PN1997 .J864 1966	Available	000692
Books	SILC Learning Support Services DH132AA - Receiption/Circulation	PN1997 .J864 1966	Available	004190

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.

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.

Item 1:
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1-A; 1.75:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Item 2:
DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Regions 1-8; 4:3 fullscreen.

Both Items: In German with optional English subtitles.

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