Young Törless

Volker Schlöndorff's first feature Young Törless is a scathing, uncompromising parable, not only for its most obvious reference point, World World II era Germany, but for the moral acquiescence of people everywhere when confronted with violence, brutality and unspeakable cruelty. At a boys' boarding school in the country, the military discipline and regimen of the schedule is matched only by the