Dustfinger Video | Clips & Character interview

Dustfinger (original: Staubfinger), also known as the fire-dancer, is a character in Cornelia Funke's Inkworld trilogy. Dustfinger was played by Paul Bettany in the film adaptation of Inkheart. Dustfinger is a fire eater who was plucked from a different world along with Capricorn and Basta through a fantasy novel read aloud by Mortimer "Mo" Folchart. In his native world, Dustfinger has the...  MORE

Dustfinger (original: Staubfinger), also known as the fire-dancer, is a character in Cornelia Funke's Inkworld trilogy. Dustfinger was played by Paul Bettany in the film adaptation of Inkheart. Dustfinger is a fire eater who was plucked from a different world along with Capricorn and Basta through a fantasy novel read aloud by Mortimer "Mo" Folchart. In his native world, Dustfinger has the rare ability to control fire by speaking to it, and, when he finds himself thrust into Mo's universe, he continues to make his living by busking. Dustfinger was born in the principality of Argenta, where he grew up as a homeless orphan along with The Black Prince, with whom he apparently got into great mischief from the fact that the two were pilloried together at age 11. Dustfinger is never seen without his pet horned marten, Gwin, and his apprentice, Farid, who was also read out of his world in Tales of the Arabian Nights by Mo, but is pleased to be freed from constant work and possible beatings. Dustfinger, on the other hand, longs to return to the world he had known, and seeks out a person with the same gift as Mo to read him back. It is later revealed that what Dustfinger yearns to return to LESS