History Literature / Krabat

* ButtMonkey: Juro most of the time. He [[ObfuscatingStupidity rolls with it]] most of the time and to him it is never mean... [[JerkAss Lyschko]] on the other hand... [[AcceptableTarget deserves what he gets]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: At the closing credits of the 2008 movie adaptation, the song ''Wir sind allein'' is played. Why does a suitingly old-timey, folk-ish soundtrack have to end with electro pop?
** And if you RefrainFromAssuming, you'll also wonder why they sing "we are alone" after a movie which point is that [[ThePowerOfLove he is]] ''not'' [[ThePowerOfFriendship alone.]]

There are also [[TheFilmOfTheBook two movie adaptations]]: A Czech animated one from 1978 by Creator/KarelZeman, and a German live-action film from 2008, with Creator/DanielBruhl.

** An instance from the movie is the ending. [[spoiler: The boys are free and leave the mill and the Master behind, the very night one of them - Krabat himself this time around - would have been sacrificed to the Devil/Death. White flour dust creeps through the mill - and as the boys and the Kantorka leave the mill bursts up into flames.]] It is at once subdued and very, very awesome and works with a soft, hopeful score. And ''then'' the credits roll. And Polarkreis18's Electro-pop "Wir sind allein" starts to play. And many a movie goer in the theatre almost suffered a heartstroke. (not to mention that the song, talking about solitude and apparent freedom in it stands in stark contrast to a film that put o much emphasis on friendship and cameradine.)

* RuleOfThree: The book is divided into three parts. Each one takes a year. Krabat has three dreams of the mill before he decides to go there. In the first year in the mill, he ages three years.

* NiceHat: Pumphutt has one. It's part of his MeaningfulName (Hut = hat).

* IAteWhat: The soldiers who come to the mill and demand food. The apprentices take a mix of sawdust and bran with old lineseed oil, and some moldy bread, and use magic to let it appear as tasty food. (It still has the same effects as the real things would.)

* AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler:Juro]] fulfills a similar role.

* TheFool: Juro. Also, TheKlutz.

* KarmicTrickster: Pumphutt

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Noone but [[spoiler:Juro.]]

* ThePowerOfLove / ThePowerOfFriendship: Both help Krabat.
* ThePrankster: Andrusch

** Actually, it is not made clear whether "the Goodman" is Satan or Death himself.

* WizardingSchool: The mill. Also, {{Academy of Evil}}.

* BadDreams: When some peasants ask the miller to make it snow, Lyschko uses magic to make them think that they were attacked by wild dogs. In that night, ''someone'' makes Lyschko dream of wild dogs killing him. Five times, then the boys have enough and make him sleep somewhere else.

''Krabat'' is a German YoungAdult novel by Otfried Preußler, [[SuggestedBy loosely]] based on an old [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs Sorbian]] folk legend. It has been published in English under the titles ''The Satanic Mill'' and ''The Curse of the Darkling Mill'', but later also under its original title.

Set in [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Saxony]], [[UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire Germany]] [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatNorthernWar in the early 1700s]][[note]]The live action movie however is set during the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar, presumably because that period is more recognizable.[[/note]], it tells the story of the beggar boy Krabat. One night he has a dream of a voice and some ravens telling him to go to a mill in the village Schwarzkollm, which he eventually does. He gets accepted by the sinister, one-eyed miller as an apprentice, but he soon learns that he is in no ordinary mill: It is a "black school" -- a school for BlackMagic. An avid student at first, Krabat slowly recognizes the danger he is in: As part of the miller's DealWithTheDevil, each year, one of the apprentices has to die.

!! Tropes in ''Krabat'' a.k.a. ''The Satanic Mill'':

Set in [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Saxony]], [[UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire Germany]] [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatNorthernWar in the early 1700s]][[note]]The live action movie however is set during the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar, presumably because that period is more recognizable.[[/note]], it tells the story of the beggar boy Krabat. One night he has a dream of a voice and some ravens telling him to go to a mill in the village Schwarzkollm, which he eventually does. He gets accepted by the sinister, one-eyed miller as an apprentice, but he soon learns that he is in no ordinary mill: It is a "black school" -- a school for BlackMagic. An avid student at first, Krabat slowly recognizes the danger he is in: As part of the miller's DealWithTheDevil, each year, one of the apprentices has to die -- as eventually happens with Krabat's mentor and friend, Tonda.

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* DigYourOwnGrave: What the doomed apprentices have to do.

There are also [[TheFilmOfTheBook two movie adaptations]]: A Czech animated one from 1978 by Creator/KarelZeman, and a German live action film from 2008.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Just the most obvious example: Where {{Jesus}} had twelve apostles, one of which became a traitor and thus responsible for his death, the master is an EvilSorceror with twelve students. [[spoiler:One of them stops following him, which leads to the master's death.]]

Set in [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Saxony]], [[UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire Germany in the early 1700s]][[note]]The live action movie however is set during the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar, presumably because that period is more recognizable.[[/note]], it tells the story of the beggar boy Krabat. One night he has a dream of a voice and some ravens telling him to go to a mill in the village Schwarzkollm, which he eventually does. He gets accepted by the sinister, one-eyed miller as an apprentice, but he soon learns that he is in no ordinary mill: It is a "black school" -- a school for BlackMagic. An avid student at first, Krabat slowly recognizes the danger he is in: As part of the miller's DealWithTheDevil, each year, one of the apprentices has to die -- as eventually happens with Krabat's mentor and friend, Tonda.

'''''Krabat''''' is a German YoungAdult novel by Otfried Preußler, [[SuggestedBy loosely]] based on an old [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs Sorbian]] folk legend. It has been published in English under the titles ''The Satanic Mill'' and ''The Curse of the Darkling Mill'', but later also under its original title.

Set in [[TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Saxony]], [[HolyRomanEmpire Germany in the early 1700s]][[note]]The live action movie however is set during the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar, presumably because that period is more recognizable.[[/note]], it tells the story of the beggar boy Krabat. One night he has a dream of a voice and some ravens telling him to go to a mill in the village Schwarzkollm, which he eventually does. He gets accepted by the sinister, one-eyed miller as an apprentice, but he soon learns that he is in no ordinary mill: It is a "black school" -- a school for BlackMagic. An avid student at first, Krabat slowly recognizes the danger he is in: As part of the miller's DealWithTheDevil, each year, one of the apprentices has to die -- as eventually happens with Krabat's mentor and friend, Tonda.

* UsefulNotes/TheGreatNorthernWar

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* MoodWhiplash: Several instances. For once the Master happily and drunkenly talks about his youth when he left the Black School he studied at and wandered around with his best friend, playing tons of pranks. When asked what happened to his friend he curtly admits having him killed.

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