The Magician

• Movie

  Type

• 1958

  Year

• 1h 41m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.4

  Rating

• Drama

  Genre

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.

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Cast

Max von Sydow

Albert Emanuel Vogler

Gunnar Björnstrand

Dr. Vergerus, Minister of Health

Ingrid Thulin

Manda Vogler

Bibi Andersson

Sara Lindqvist

Erland Josephson

Consul Egerman

Naima Wifstrand

Granny Vogler

Bengt Ekerot

Johan Spegel

Lars Ekborg

Simson, the coach driver

Åke Fridell

Tubal

Toivo Pawlo

Starbeck

Sif Ruud

Sofia

Ulla Sjöblom

Henrietta