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| “ | Gold cannot buy my magic horse. | „ |
| ~ The sorcerer to the Caliph. |
The African Sorcerer is the main antagonist of the 1926 German animated fantasy film The Adventures of Prince Achmed.
Biography[]
A mighty African sorcerer conjures a flying horse that he shows to the Caliph for his birthday. Impressed, the Caliph offers to purchase the horse, but the sorcerer refuses. The Caliph then offers any of his treasures, to which the sorcerer requests his daughter Dinarsade to be his wife. Her brother Achmed objects to his request, but the sorcerer tries to persuade him into reconsidering by trying out the horse. Achmed agrees to this and mounts the horse, which then flies away in the sky. The Caliph asks the sorcerer if he taught Achmed how to control the horse, only for the sorcerer to shrug. He then has the sorcerer imprisoned.
Later on, the sorcerer tracks the horse's location to China, where Achmed and Pari Banu of Wak Wak were. He escapes the Caliph's dungeon by transforming into a bat and flies away. He arrives as Achmed and Pari Banu fall in love with a kiss, and transforms into a kangaroo to steal Pari Banu's feather costume. Achmed chases after him, only to fall into a pit. With Achmed distracted by a giant snake, the sorcerer appears before the confused Pari Banu. He gifts her a garment and offers to take her to Achmed, before flying away on the horse. The sorcerer takes Pari Banu to the Chinese Emperor and sells her as a slave.
Transforming the Emperor's bags of money into birds, the sorcerer returns to attack Achmed, carrying him to the top of a mountain. The birds then merge together into a large boulder, which the sorcerer uses to pin Achmed. He taunts the trapped Achmed that he will have his sister before flying away. Fortunately, Achmed is rescued by the Witch of the Fire Mountain, the sorcerer's archenemy.
To open the gate of Wak Wak to rescue Pari Banu from demons, Achmed seeks the help from the genie of the lamp. He rescues a poor tailor named Aladdin from a monster, who explains that he was deceived by the sorcerer to claim the magic lamp as a way to win Dinarsade's affection. Aladdin retrieved the lamp from a cave, but when the sorcerer demanded him to give him the lamp before helping him out, he refused and thus the sorcerer sealed him in the cave. He awakened the genie and escaped the cave where he won Dinarsade's affections by building a palace and she married him. However, one night, the sorcerer kidnapped Dinarsade and stole the lamp and palace. Aladdin was framed for the kidnapping and fled to avoid being executed by the Caliph.
The witch then arrives and agrees to battle against the sorcerer on Achmed and Aladdin's behalf as he held the lamp. She performs a ritualistic dance that exposes the sorcerer, and the two clash by transforming into multiple animals, with the sorcerer taking the form of a lion, scorpion, vulture, and a sea serpent. Upon reverting to their human forms, the two fling giant fireballs at one another until the witch successfully strikes the sorcerer down.
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