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Beggar boy Krabat is lured to apprentice for an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of others, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas, one of the lads has to face the master in a magical duel, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person allowed to use a secret spell.
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- Director
- Karel Zeman
- Written by
- Otfried Preußler, Karel Zeman
- Composer
- František Belfín
- Cinematographers
- Bohuslav Pikhart, Zdeněk Krupa
- Editor
- Ivan Matouš
- Origin country
- Czechoslovakia
- Production countries
- Czechoslovakia, Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Language
- Czech
- TMDB
- 7.3/10 (47 votes)
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (1,210 votes)
Released March 1, 1978·Čarodějův učeň
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