Marian Seidowsky

Young Törless

Volker Schlöndorff

Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky

At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.

Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass

Volker Schlöndorff

Senta Berger, Margarethe von Trotta

Gods of the Plague

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Harry Baer, Hanna Schygulla

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Baal

Volker Schlöndorff

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.