Il discepolo
Synopsis
Adrien Sixte is a reclusive intellectual known for his theories on psychological materialism. Sixteâs orderly, self-enclosed world is violently interrupted when a desperate mother petitions his help and a judge summons him to a criminal trial. The young defendant, Robert Greslouâa student and self-styled disciple of Sixteâhas sent his master a confidential memoir written in jail. Greslouâs psychological self analysis traces the nexus of causes that propelled him to his current predicament. The memoir culminates with his experience as a tutor for an aristocratic family: when he experiments with the affection he inspires in a young girl, the discipleâs actions eventually leading to her death.
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