The Magician
Drama, Indie, Foreign · 1958Ingmar Bergman’s The Magician (Ansiktet) is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists. Max von Sydow stars as Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus. The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny, shot in rich, gorgeously gothic black and white.
- Runtime 1 hour 41 mins
- Released 26th December, 1958
- Rating NR
- AKA The Magician (Ansiktet) (The Face)
- Director Ingmar Bergman
- Writer Ingmar Bergman
