Young Törless

Young Törless
Directed byVolker Schlöndorff
Written byVolker Schlöndorff
Herbert Asmodi
Robert Musil (novel)
Produced by
StarringMathieu Carrière
Marian Seidowsky
Bernd Tischer
Fred Dietz
CinematographyFranz Rath
Edited byClaus von Boro
Music byHans Werner Henze
Production
companies
  • Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
  • Nouvelles Éditions de Films S.A.
Distributed byNora Filmverleih
Release date
  • 9 May 1966 (1966-05-09) (Cannes)
Running time
87 minutes
Countries
  • West Germany
  • France
LanguageGerman

Young Törless (German: Der junge Törless) is a 1966 German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted from the 1906 novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil. It deals with the violent and sadistic tendencies of a group of boys at an Austrian military academy at the beginning of the 20th century.