Indignation = Empörung written for the screen and dir. by James Schamus ; based on the novel by Philip Roth

This realistic dramatization, bursting with emotions and high sensibility, focuses on the complex inner struggles of Marcus Messner, a brilliant, intense, and atheist student of Jewish origin, who leaves his home in Newark, New Jersey, to attend the small Catholic-based Winesburg College in Ohio. We’re invited to ponder the vagaries of chance, fate, and personal responsibility as Marcus negotiates his freshman year, having managed to escape an over-protective, perhaps mentally ill working-class father who imagines the worst for his only child and warns him that one mistake could ruin his life. Marcus is bright, balanced and seems destined for success. Until he sees Olivia Hutton throw a bare leg over an armrest in the library. After that, his college experience becomes more complicated. Then it's the college dean who tests Marcus to his moral and philosophical core.