Word: matthieu
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Young Topless is a painstakingly accurate re-creation of life in a military school of imperial Austria. Torless (Matthieu Carriere) is a sensitive boy-the despair of his father and the overweening hope of his mother-who begins his scholastic career at a noted academy. Hardly has he buttoned up his tunic when he begins to sense that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. His professors are interested in order, not in knowledge; most of his fellow students are toadies and bullies who pervert the authority over them by victimizing those under them. In Tor-less' class...