Krabat Film Analysis

The ingenuity of Kreuzpaintner in Krabat (Question 1)

The movie Krabat, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, addresses the adventure of a young orphan named Krabat who learns black magic from an evil sorcerer in a satanic mill. Krabat goes through several struggles that help him develop into this heroic character and ends up fighting for his freedom through love and friendship. The movie was released on September 7th, 2008. The main actors in the movie were David Kross as Krabat, Daniel Bruhl as Tonda, and Christian Redl as the evil master. The movie was directed more towards grownups who read the novel when they were young and grew up obsessed about it. Other than that the changes made in the movie were not that significant from the novel; the cinematography, the actors, and
The images helped engage the audience more into the movie by viewing the set from different angles. The producers showed the viewer only what he/she needed to see, cutting out all the extra details that would either confuse the viewer or complicate the situation. Another cinematography element in the movie that was also well done was the viewing of the black magic, especially the transformation of the journeymen into ravens. Most producers who try to add any supernatural effect like that into a movie end up ruining the whole scene with these computer effects resulting in a disaster, but fortunately that did not happen in Krabat. Kreuzpaintner dealt with these special effects by letting the camera shoot from a distance so that all the zoomed-in details and special computer effects would not affect the scene, therefore not ruining the scene for the viewer. The smart use of the camera work and efficient use of special effects are usually the main challenges that producers of fantasy movies like Krabat fail to overcome, yet Kreuzpaintner managed to pull it