Petra works at a café owned by her grandfather (Grandpa Winter) in Daniel's hometown of Eggenfelden.

Daniel sticks his finger into each cake on the counter and tastes them all, then buys them and gives Petra and her grandfather two free tickets for his last concert of the year in Passau.

When Daniel is briefly left alone, his grandfather appears to him and emboldens him, warning him that he is about to face his toughest trial to date.

Rike and Tom return and are unable to make themselves go through with the plan to kill Daniel – instead beginning to talk about their unhappy childhoods.

Tom even confesses that he thinks Daniel's latest hit song isn't bad.

They are delighted, and Daniel, Rike, and Tom - now seemingly the best of friends - play around with the guitar in the snowy garden, to the song "I Like The Skin I'm In".

Returning home, Daniel finds the wand under the Christmas tree, with a note saying: "From the one-armed man".

Daniel goes to bed and falls asleep clutching the wand, dreaming of the red carpet premiere of his film and of performing in concert.

But the dream turns into a nightmare, and Daniel imagines negative tabloid headlines swirling and Baltazar stabbing him in his bed.

In his opinion, the understanding between the old and the young people and the mutual trust plays an important role in it and so he decided to shoot the film with an intergenerational cast.

The website filmstarts.de states that Daniel - Der Zauberer was "unbearable for non-fans of Küblböck", "the performances of the actors were some of the worst in the history of German cinema" and that Ulli Lommel and producer Peter Schamoni "damaged their reputation.

[6] The film also performed extremely poorly at the box office, drawing only 13,834 viewers altogether, which led to it being withdrawn from screening at cinemas within the first week.

[8] It was the lowest rated movie on IMDb for a long time, and wieistderfilm.de stated it was fair to call it the worst German film ever made.

[10] In an interview conducted several years after its release Daniel Küblböck admitted that in retrospect "You have to say this is the worst movie of all time really.