Krabat (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Krabat |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marco Kreuzpaintner |
| script | Marco Kreuzpaintner Michael Gutmann |
| production |
Jakob Claussen Thomas Wöbke Uli Putz Bernd Wintersperger |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Daniel Gottschalk |
| cut | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
| occupation | |
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Krabat is a real-life adaptation by director Marco Kreuzpaintner of the novel Krabat by Otfried Preußler . This is based on the well-known Sorbian folk tale Krabat .
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At the end of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), the 14-year-old orphan boy Krabat became an apprentice in 1646 in a water mill in Koselbruch near Schwarzkollm in Lausitz . The eleven other journeymen treat him partly harshly, but also teach him the necessary skills of a miller journeyman. Krabat initially trusts the old journeyman Tonda and a friendship develops. Like all journeymen, Krabat gradually and willingly gets deeper and deeper into the clutches of the master, who is versed in the black witchcraft and passes them on to his journeymen, which Krabat initially likes. When he invisibly visited the village of Schwarzkollm on Easter Vigil at Tonda's side, he saw a girl there, with whom he instantly fell in love. However, Tonda strongly warns him never to reveal the girl's name to the Master. Krabat realizes that there are obviously reasons for this when one autumn morning Tonda's girlfriend Worschula is found dead in Mühlbach. As a result, Tonda becomes increasingly dilapidated and on New Year's Eve he is found, apparently killed, by the other journeymen.
Krabat has to realize that he and the other apprentices are not only instructed by the master in the black arts, but obviously one of the journeymen has to give his life to "the godfather" every year so that the master himself does not die. His fellow journeyman Juro entrusts Krabat with a way of escaping from the mill and the clutches of the master: his girl has to free him from the master on New Year's Eve, this is the only way to loosen the tie to the master and the mill. The girl appears on New Year's Eve and asks for her Krabat. The master then puts her to the test: She has to recognize Krabat among all the journeymen he has turned into ravens. She senses him and so passes the test, the spell breaks and the master dies when the mill goes up in flames. The journeymen are normal boys again and move away.
Emergence
The story of the sorcerer's apprentice Krabat is a Sorbian saga , which became known in particular through the books by Jurij Brězan ( The Black Mill , 1968 or Krabat or The Metamorphosis of the World , 1976) and Preußler ( Krabat , 1971).
The film Krabat is the second real-life version of the topic. In 1975 the legend was made into a film based on the book by Jurij Brězan under the title The Black Mill by director Celino Bleiweiß for television in the GDR . In 1977 the Czech-German cartoon Krabat by the director Karel Zeman was made , which refers to the book by Preußler.
The production of Krabat cost over eight million euros. The film was shot in the Carpathian Mountains near Sibiu ( Romania ), in some cases under very adverse conditions (Marco Kreuzpaintner: “It was on the verge of a nervous breakdown”) and in the film studios in Bottrop . Other outdoor scenes were shot in Bonndorf in the Black Forest , on the Feldberg , in the Neuhausen ob Eck open-air museum and in Schluchsee - Blasiwald in order to receive funding from the state of Baden-Württemberg . For the scene in St. Blasien the forest in the Eisenbreche was artificially snowed. However, this winter scene was later cut out of the film. Originally, filming in the Wutach Gorge was also planned, but this was also canceled.
After the world premiere on September 7, 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival , the German premiere took place on September 23, 2008 in the Lichtburg Essen . The film was released in German cinemas on October 9, 2008 and was seen by 1,486,444 viewers, which corresponded to sales of around EUR 9 million. The free TV premiere took place on April 25, 2011 on ProSieben .
The title song Alone Alone was written by the German band Polarkreis 18 .
Differences from the book
Although the film captures the book's first few words at the beginning, the differences are big below. The film does not take place during the Northern War (this is also when the saga was created), but is set 60 years earlier at the end of the Thirty Years' War. The second and third years were mixed together, but the time with Tonda was more emphasized. Witko as a new apprentice is dropped, as is Michal's death at the end of the second year. Since he does not die, this is not the trigger for Merten's suicide attempt, but an inkling that the godfather has chosen him as the next victim. The story of Tonda and his Worschula is told, while this is only mentioned in retrospect in the book. A raid on Schwarzkollm is staged, in which the boys save the residents, but in the course of which Worschula gives himself away, so that she is killed a short time later. Schwarzkollm , in the flat north of Saxony, will be relocated to the low mountain range like the mill itself. In the end, it is not Krabat's decision to call the Kantorka on New Year's Eve, but Lyschkos, one of the negative characters in the book, because the boys have vowed to stick together. The character of Andrusch, often mentioned in the book and described as funny, has shady features in the film, whereas Merten, rarely mentioned in the first two years, plays a supporting and explanatory role for Krabat. In addition, the Kantorka does not have to find Krabat among all ravens in the book, but has to find Krabat among all other miller's boys in normal shape with his eyes closed. The kantorka also doesn't have light hair as in the book, but black.
Reviews
Otfried Preußler wrote to the producers about the film: “I'm glad ... that I can recognize 'my' Krabat in your film. Marco Kreuzpaintner actually managed to do justice to both the medium of film and my book. The result is a very demanding, coherent whole. "
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency , which gave the film the rating of “particularly valuable”, wrote: “Here a masterpiece was created very carefully and cautiously, which sometimes bears the gloomy features of Nosferatu's horror . Quite unusual for a recent German film and characterized by a strong aesthetic will, the director succeeds in showing black magic and archaic rituals against the background of the hardship in times of war, an oppressive image of social conditions, in which feelings of hope, Humanity and love flare up, but in view of the overwhelming power of dark forces, they can hardly assert themselves. "
The lexicon of international films wrote: “The fantasy film does not quite succeed in implementing the seductive power of magic with trick technology, but thanks to its coherent set design, remarkable actors and the concentration on the tensions between the characters involved in the fatal pact, it condenses its creepy story to an atmospheric adventure. "
The FAZ reviewer , on the other hand, could not get much positive out of the film. Krabat never reaches the depth and complexity of the book, but is largely limited to the external plot. The film was too loud in every respect and did not allow any nuances. By dispensing with the heterogeneous narrative threads of the book and many of the folk tales interspersed there, the figure of the miller becomes more incomprehensible than in the original.
Awards
In 2009 Krabat was nominated for the German Film Award in the categories of best production design, best film music and sound design . Paula Kalenberg received the Lilli Palmer & Curd Jürgens memory camera from Hörzu as best young actress.
Trivia
The village of Schwarzkollm (part of Hoyerswerda since 1996 ) really does exist in Lusatia. A " Krabatmühle " has been built there for years in a historical design and is a tourist destination.
In the book, the legendary figure of the pumphutt , also known in Lusatia, appears ; once a story is told about him, a little later he actually comes by on his hike. It was originally planned to at least mention him in the film, but this was canceled due to cuts. Remnants of it are still there, however: In the scene before the first Easter night, when Krabat and Merten sit together in the bedroom and Krabat asks where the boys go every Friday, they hold a miracle disk ( thaumatrop ) in their hand, on which they stop Image Pumphutts is located. As described in the book, he wears a tall pointed hat and an earring.
literature
- Otfried Preussler : Krabat . Film edition. Thienemann, Stuttgart and Vienna 2008, 269 pages, ISBN 978-3-522-18070-2 .
Web links
- Krabat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- cinemusic.de Review by Michael Boldhaus: Black Magic in Lusatia: Krabat. Published on November 18, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Krabat . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 360 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Krabat . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The black mill. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Interview Tagesspiegel Ticket 41/2008. Tagesspiegel , accessed on October 6, 2015 .
- ^ Ute Aschendorf: film team in Blasiwald-Eisenbreche . In: Badische Zeitung , July 14, 2007, accessed on September 28, 2013.
- ↑ Krabat's World ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Freilichtmuseum-neuhausen.de, accessed on September 28, 2013.
- ↑ Dana Hoffmann: Bonndorf: Krabat film adaptation: 2 minutes of fame for Bonndorfer Stadtwald . In: Badische Zeitung , October 16, 2008, accessed on June 24, 2011.
- ↑ TOP 100 GERMANY 2008 , insidekino.de
- ↑ a b Krabat (PDF file; 390 kB) at the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
- ↑ Krabat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Tilman Spreckelsen : No magic against love . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 10, 2008.
- ↑ German Film Prize: An overview of the nominations . welt.de, March 13, 2009.
