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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. Eleven other boys are working at the mill, and Krabat develops a friendship with one of them, a young man named Tonda (Daniel Brühl).
Ultimately, she rescues Krabat from death, and they and the journeymen escape the mill. The master is left to die in the burning mill on New Year's Eve, while the survivors lose all their magic powers and are now simple millers who have to provide for themselves through normal hard work.
Jun 9, 2009 · A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts.
Thirty Years' War. The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
- Central Europe
- Peace of Westphalia
Summoned across Saxony, a province in the east of Germany on the Polish border, by repeated dreams of a strange mill, Krabat becomes its Master's twelfth apprentice. Dark magic, at first visible only in furtive glimmers, sustains the isolated enterprise.
Nov 10, 1971 · It takes place in old Bohemia just after the 30 Years War , when plague ravaged the land. The main character, Krabat, was left orphaned and was forced to go begging with some other boys. After three vivid dreams during which a voice commanded him to leave his friends and go to a nearby mill, he awakened one morning and did as the voice had ...
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A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts.
