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    The Magician
        
        7.5
        101 min
    
    
        Ingmar 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.
    
    
            Country:
            
                Sweden
            
        
        
            Genre:
            
                Drama
            
        
        
            Released: 1958-12-26
        
        
            Production:
            
                Svensk Filmindustri
            
        
        
        
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