Volker Schlöndorff’s "Young Törless"

Join us at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive when we see Young Törless, German director Volker Schlöndorff’s debut feature film. This film is part of the PFA’s months-long Fassbinder and the New German Cinema retrospective. NOTE: It is recommended that you purchase tickets in advance.

"After working with Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Resnais, Volker Schlöndorff released this astonishingly assured first feature (working with a mainly non-professional cast) to universal critical acclaim. Based on a novel by Robert Musil about one boy’s unwitting involvement in the rituals of sadism and suppression in a turn-of-the-century boarding-school, it is filmed in a stark, almost documentary style fitting to its subject, playing up the allegorical potential of a power game of activity and passivity in a totalitarian little-world. Törless, despite his distance and inactivity, finds himself an accomplice: ‘We are neither good nor bad, but defined solely in action’” (Richard Kwietniowski)." — Pacific Film Archive

Pacific Film Archive Tickets, Information, and Directions: https://bampfa.org/event/young-torless

Fassbinder and the New German Cinema (March 6 – May 17): https://bampfa.org/program/Fassbinder-New-German-Cinema

4:00 Meet at PFA's Box Office (2155 Center Street) to purchase or pick up tickets.
The film starts at 4:30.
6:00 After the film we will meet at Elaichi cafe on 2161 Allston Way for conversation.