2008 · action · fantasy · horror
Krabat
Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner2h 0m2008
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. When the life of his friend and protector is threatened, Krabat must struggle to free himself from an evil sorcerer's control in a gripping fight for freedom, friendship and love.
Our read: Krabat (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive action · fantasy · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- inventive
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