The black mill (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The black mill |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Celino white lead |
| script | Celino Bleiweiß, Günter Kaltofen (scenario) |
| production | DEFA on behalf of East German television |
| music | Andrzej Korzyński |
| camera | Günter Marczinkowsky |
| cut | Erika Lehmphul |
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The black mill is a German film adaptation of Celino white lead from 1975. The the television of the GDR resulting DEFA film is an adaptation of the story , the black mill the writer Jurij Brězan . The film was first broadcast on December 25, 1975 in the first program of GDR television.
action
The young hiker Krabat spent the night on his way with the farmer Jan and his fiancée Mirka, who told him about the black miller, their landlord . The next day Krabat meets the same man who takes him to his mill. Seven apathetic servants work there, grinding stones into gold. The miller offers Krabat a job, for which someone else has to be fired. When he agrees, the miller turns one of his servants into a wild boar, to Krabat's horror, and accepts him in his place. Only now does Krabat discover that the miller is a dark wizard who turns his servants into ravens overnight in order to prevent them from escaping and at the same time to prevent a mother from discovering their son who is being held. Only in this case would the miller be forced to give freedom to a servant again.
Krabat befriends Markus, another servant, and learns where his parents' house is. The boy flies to it at night and reveals to Markus' mother where her son is.
The miller discovers that there is something special about Krabat and equips him and Markus with magical powers. When Markus' mother frees the two of them from the mill, they want to take up the fight against the miller. Shortly before he leaves, Krabat succeeds in stealing his former master's book of spells. From this he learns that the power of the black miller depends on the operation of his mill, whose mill stream in turn feeds itself from a swamp. Shortly afterwards the miller kidnaps Mirka and brings her under his power by magic, he turns Jan into a stone. Krabat succeeds in freeing the kidnapped woman, but allegedly dies in the process.
Meanwhile, Markus hires himself as a court jester to the king, in whose service Krabat also wants to step in to find his friend again. The miller, who is also at the royal court, transforms Markus during a hunt, so that Krabat accidentally shoots him. Now he makes the final decision to kill the wizard.
Markus' mother is able to persuade the villagers, who are under the rule of the miller, to dig a ditch that dries up the swamp, causing the wheels of the Black Mill to come to a standstill. Krabat faces the miller for the last time, who ultimately succumbs to him.
criticism
"Based on the Sorbian folk tale 'Krabat', an adventurous and philosophically demanding fairy tale film for television."
Awards
- 1977: National Festival for Children's Films of the GDR in cinema and television Gera: Prize of the Minister for Culture of the GDR
DVD release
In September 2010 the film was released on DVD by Icestorm Distribution GmbH .
Web links
- The black mill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The black mill in the online film database
- The black mill at filmportal.de
- The black mill - entry in the film archive of Cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ The black mill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Progress Film-Verleih : The Black Mill. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; Retrieved February 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Amazon.com: The Black Mill - DDR TV archive. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .