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      Young Töerless

      1966 1h 25m Drama List
      Reviews 82% 500+ Ratings Audience Score At a boarding school in 1900s Austria, cruel bullies Beineberg (Bernd Tischer) and Reiting (Fred Dietz) go to great lengths to embarrass, abuse and dehumanize their pathetic classmate, Basini (Marian Seidowsky). The lowly Basini shows no opposition to his position as the object of constant brutality, and neither does Töerless (Mathieu Carrière), a perceptive yet detached friend of the bullies. But as Töerless watches idly, the tormentors begin to turn the whole school violently against Basini. Read More Read Less

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      Dave S Volker Schlondorff made his feature film directorial debut with Young Torless in 1966. In the film, Basini, a young man at an Austrian military school, is caught by his classmates stealing money from another student. Without reporting the incident to their superiors, Basini is mentally and physically tormented by his classmates, including the analytical and emotionless Torless. The movie is about blind obedience and the fact that an individual condones evil and wrongdoing if that individual does nothing to challenge or acknowledge it. In Schlondorff's impressive debut, a character states "what seems so horrific, so incomprehensible from afar, simply happens. Quietly and naturally," clearly referencing Nazi Germany and the holocaust. In that context, it is a powerful experience and foreshadowed the arrival of Schlondorff's masterpiece The Tin Drum in the decade that followed. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Deep Drama with thinly veiled message about Nazi Era!! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A metaphor to explain how the people let Hilter did what he did. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member nossa, arrumaram o guri mais feioso e com cara de nojentinho pra fazer o Basini. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member What 'White Ribbon' wanted to achieve... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Grandious Drama about a Student of a Austro-Hungarian Internat who gets fascinated about Power and Humaliation when the Students of German Ethnicity torture and abuse a Jewish Student who stole Money from one of them Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis At a boarding school in 1900s Austria, cruel bullies Beineberg (Bernd Tischer) and Reiting (Fred Dietz) go to great lengths to embarrass, abuse and dehumanize their pathetic classmate, Basini (Marian Seidowsky). The lowly Basini shows no opposition to his position as the object of constant brutality, and neither does Töerless (Mathieu Carrière), a perceptive yet detached friend of the bullies. But as Töerless watches idly, the tormentors begin to turn the whole school violently against Basini.
      Director
      Volker Schlöndorff
      Producer
      Franz Achter
      Screenwriter
      Herbert Asmodi, Robert Musil, Volker Schlöndorff
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      German
      Release Date (DVD)
      Mar 15, 2005
      Runtime
      1h 25m
      Sound Mix
      Mono