Törless, a shy, intelligent student at an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, observes his classmates' sadistic behavior and does nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Young Törless, based on Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, launched the New German Cinema movement and earned first-time director Volker Schlöndorff the Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize in 1966.
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Törless, a shy, intelligent student at an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, observes his classmates' sadistic behavior and does nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Young Törless, based on Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, launched the New German Cinema movement and earned first-time director Volker Schlöndorff the Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize in 1966.
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