The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century. When Thomas Törless (Mathieu Carrière) arrives at the academy, he learns how Anselm von Basini (Marian Seidowsky) has been caught stealing by fellow student Reiting (Fred Dietz), and is obliged to become Reiting’s “slave,” bowing to Reiting’s sadistic rituals.

• Young Torless
• Mathieu Carrière
• Marian Seidowsky
• Bernd Tischer
• Volker Schlöndorff