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Young Torless, Franz Seitz-Film

Label
Young Torless, Franz Seitz-Film
Language
ger
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Main title
Young Torless
Oclc number
58836332
Responsibility statement
Franz Seitz-Film
Runtime
87
Series statement
Criterion Collection, 279
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
Technique
live action
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