Krank (The City of Lost Children)

Krank is the main antagonist of the 1995 French-German-Spanish Steampunk/Fantasy film The City of Lost Children

He is a demented scientist and bioenginee

red being created by an inventor as well as Krank's assistant Mademoiselle Martha Bismuth, his counselor a brain in a tank called Uncle Irving and his minions the Clones, however his inventions were cursed by a genetic fairy so every one would have some defect, Krank was created as a very intelligent man but his curse is never to sleep nor have dreams, because of this, Krank kidnaps children from a port city near his rig to steal their dreams, among the kids there is Denree the adopted little brother of carnival strongman and former whaler One, who sets out to rescue him. Assisting him is a little girl named Miette, a member of a thieves' guild of orphaned children. They delve into the wo

rld of a bio-mechanical cult and discover the connection between Krank and Denree.

Kranks uses a machine to steal the kids dreams, but he doesn't realizes he is scaring them so the kids always have nightmares which annoys Krank, while this is happening Miette is rescued by an amnesiac diver living beneath the harbor, who bears resemblance to Krank's clones, Uncle Irvin releases a dream as a plea for help, it plants information in Miette's mind and restores some of the diver's memories, including how he once lived on the rig before he was attacked by Krank and Martha, and thrown into the sea. They all converge on the rig; the diver to destroy it and the duo to rescue Denree.

Later, Miette is forced to enter a dream world to release Denree from the dream extracting machine, in the dream world, Miette meets Krank and makes a deal with him to replace Denree as the source of the dream; Krank fears a trap but plays along, believing himself to be in control. Miette then uses her imagination to control the dream and turn it into an infinite loop, the loop destroys Krank's mind, he wakes up screaming and then dies over Uncle Irving tank, allowing Miette to rescue Denree.