Pains of Youth

Ferdinand Bruckner’s Pains of Youth is a wickedly sexy and disturbing exploration of a group of medical students in 1923 Vienna. In a world stripped of its morality & faith, these cynical twenty-somethings reach dangerous extremes as they struggle to find purpose & meaning in their lives. Unsure of the future and still clinging to the simpler days of their youth, they rashly hurl themselves at adulthood by experimenting with complex power struggles, sexual manipulation, drug abuse, and even death.

Directed by Charles Wilson and Michael Fitzgerald.