Krabat (film)

Krabat is a 2008 German fantasy film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Michael Gutmann and Kreuzpaintner, based on Otfried Preulers 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 DVDVideo encode of the film is distributed in the United Kingdom as Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill.

When the Plague sweeps across Europe after the Thirty Years War a boy named Krabat David Kross of The Reader 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 Brhl. 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 girls 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. Krabats first Silvester New Years 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, Krabats 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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