Mariken (2000)

Description

Mariken is set in the Middle Ages and tells the story of a girl who learns the world in seven days. The orphan girl Mariken grows up isolated from civilization, raised by the eccentric old man Archibald. She draws all her knowledge from the book "The Man's Dilemma." When the goat Sofie dies one day, Mariken decides to travel to the annual fair to buy a new one. It becomes an adventurous journey. Mariken meets the Black Widow, who fears her nephew Rattenjan is the son of the devil; the charioteers Joachim, Isabella, and Griet; and a childless countess who wants to raise Mariken as her own daughter.