Krabat (2008)

Directed by

Marco Kreuzpaintner

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

12

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 224 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy named Krabat becomes an apprentice at a mill. He discovers the master is a sorcerer who teaches him black magic under dark and dangerous conditions.

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What happens

Krabat (German: [ˈkʁaːbat] ) is a 2008 German fantasy film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Michael Gutmann and Kreuzpaintner, based on Otfried Preußler's 1971 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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