The Magician
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- Drama
Overview
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.
Keywords
- magic
- dual identity
- paranoia
- reality vs fantasy
- paranormal phenomena
- social allegory
- witchcraft
- disguises
- scam artist
- struggling artist
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 26, 1958
- Original language
- Swedish
- Spoken languages
- Swedish
- Countries
- Sweden
- Production
- SF Studios
- Cast
- Max von Sydow,Ingrid Thulin,Gunnar Björnstrand,Naima Wifstrand,Bengt Ekerot,Bibi Andersson,Gertrud Fridh,Lars Ekborg,Toivo Pawlo,Erland Josephsonand 10 more
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer
- Allan Ekelund
- Cinematography
- Gunnar Fischer
- Music
- Erik Nordgren
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0051365