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Krabat: The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a film of genre Drama directed by Karel Zeman with Christian Brückner

Krabat: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978)

Krabat: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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Length 1h13
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Genres Drama,    Fantasy,    Horror,    Animation
Rating74% 3.737363.737363.737363.737363.73736

Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Czech: Čarodějův učeň) is a 1978 Czechoslovak cutout animated dark fantasy film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the 1971 book Krabat by Otfried Preußler, and the Sorbian folk tale upon which the book is based. The name Krabat is derived from the word Croat.

Synopsis

Krabat, a beggar boy in early 18th century Lusatia, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. Together with a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill under slave-like conditions while learning black magic, such as guising himself as a raven and other animals. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical duel of life and death, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person who is allowed to use his secret grimoire: The Koraktor, or the Force of Hell.

Actors

Christian Brückner

(Krabat (Narrator) (voice))
Friedrich Schütter

(Master (voice))
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