Krabat (film)
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| Directed by | Marco Kreuzpaintner |
| Produced by | Jakob Claussen Uli Putz Bernd Wintersperger Thomas Wobke |
| Written by | Marco Kreuzpaintner Michael Gutmann |
| Based on |
The Satanic Mill by Otfried Preußler |
| Starring |
David Kross Daniel Brühl Christian Redl Robert Stadlober Paula Kalenberg Daniel Steiner Hanno Koffler |
| Music by | Annette Focks |
| Cinematography | Daniel Gottschalk |
| Edited by | Hansjoerg Weissbrich |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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115 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Krabat is a 2008 German fantasy film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Michael Gutmann and Kreuzpaintner, based on Otfried Preußler's novel of the same name. The plot is about a boy, Krabat (played by David Kross), who learns black magic from a sorcerer (played by Christian Redl). A DVD-Video encode of the film is distributed in the United Kingdom as Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill.
It premiered in the US at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2009.
When the Plague sweeps across Europe after the Thirty Years' War a boy named Krabat (David Kross) is left without family, food, or hope. An old Mill Keeper takes him in as an apprentice. There are eleven other boys working at the mill, and Krabat develops a friendship with one of them, a young man named Tonda (Daniel Brühl). Soon, Krabat learns that the apprentices are also taught dark sorcery by the master, and one of the rituals (during Easter) lead to an excursion to the nearby village Schwarzkollm where Krabat meets a young girl and falls in love with her. There, Tonda also talks to one of the girls; both seem to be in love with each other. Later, Tonda warns Krabat that the master must never know the name of his girl.
One day, while protecting the nearby village from soldiers, Tonda makes an error and his girl's name (Worschula) is revealed to the master. The next day, Worschula turns up in the creek, dead. Krabat mistakenly blames Lyschko, another apprentice. Tonda becomes a recluse and anticipates the end of the year. Krabat's first Silvester (New Year's Eve) brings to light the true horror of the mill. Every Silvester, one of the boys must be sacrificed so the master may remain young. And so at midnight, Krabat's best friend Tonda is viciously murdered, and when Krabat tries to help him he is stopped by the other boys who tell him that "there is nothing we can do". Before he dies, Tonda tells Krabat there is another boy in the mill Krabat can confide in. He also tells Krabat to take two sacks of flour to the village.
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