The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.

• Christoph Waltz
• Chris Makepeace
• Bernhard Wicki
• Herbert Fux
• Bernd Stephan
• Vanessa Knox-Mawer
• Harry Hornisch
• Erwin Steinhauer