Thaumaturge

Thaumaturge is 1989 Brunanter-Lovian sword and sorcery fantasy film directed by Ronald Koopman, with a screenplay written by Christian Holmes, based on the Lovian book of the same name by William Goodwin, published the year before.

The film boasts an impressive Brunanter-Lovian cast consisting of both rising young stars Willow Martigan as the lead character and Marlene Torres-Banks, and veteran actors Isabella Varna and Oscar Karmann.

It was released in December 1989 to mixed reviews from critics, but was a modest financial success.

Production
Thaumaturge is a co-production between Transbaum, a film studio from Lovia, and Brunant-based Liberal Arts, with executive producer Alexander Koopman, father of the director and himself an experienced movie-maker. It was Koopman senior who proposed his son, a fantasy fan, for the directing spot. Principal photography began just a couple of months after the book was publicly released.

The majority of the filming was done in Cape Cross Parish, Brunant, which is the main reason why Transbaum approached Liberal Arts. Shooting took place on the cliffs and mountains of Cape Cross, the high terrain considered by many to be the most beautiful region in the country. Brezonde Castle, in the town of Brezonde there, was also featured, though its Arabian style was covered up as much as possible.

Premise
Thaumaturge is set in Cerdan, a fictive kingdom in the fantasy world of Half-World, and centers around a promising, warm-hearted young man named Lerr who at the beginning of the story is finally at the right age and skill level to be appointed an apprentice to the Court Magician, Olding. This means departing from his childhood friend, the tougher Tanrad, who enlists at a military training camp in the city Torild-Honess, as he has always wanted to become a soldier.

Cerdan is shook up when its oldest prince is brutally murdered.

Cast

 * Willow Martigan, as Lerr, a sorcerer's apprentice
 * as, the 'court sorcerer' and teacher to Lerr
 * Marlene Torres-Banks, as Maiden
 * David Peacewic, as Tanrad, a soldier and, at first, Lerr's closest friend
 * Isabella Varna, as Queen Xolixe
 * as vain and arrogant Prince
 * Oscar Karmann, as Skelan, Duke of Torild-Honess
 * as Kel'ack, the son of Duke Skelan