Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France
At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school authorities, they will punish him themselves and proceed to torture, degrade, and humiliate the boy, with ever-increasing sadistic delight.