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Max von Sydow | Albert Emanuel Vogler | |
Ingrid Thulin | Manda Vogler | |
Gunnar Bjornstrand | Dr. Vergerus | |
Naima Wifstrand | Granny Vogler | |
Bengt Ekerot | Johan Spegel | |
Bibi Andersson | Sara | |
Gertrud Fridh | Ottilia Egerman | |
Lars Ekborg | Simson | |
Toivo Pawlo | Police Superintendant Starbeck | |
Erland Josephson | Consul Egerman | |
Max Von Sydow & Ingrid Thulin | ||
Axel Duberg | Rustan | |
Ake Fridell | Tubal | |
Oscar Ljung | Antonsson | |
Sif Ruud | Sofia Garp | |
Ulla Sjöblom | Henrietta Starbeck |
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Producer | Allan Ekelund
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Writer | Ingmar Bergman
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Cinematography | Gunnar Fischer
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The Magician (Ansiktet), directed by Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Fanny And Alexander), is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema's premier illusionists. Max von Sydow (The Virgin Spring, The Exorcist) stars as Dr. Vogler, a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test by a small town's cruel, eminently rational minister of health, Dr. Vergerus (Wild Strawberries' Gunnar Bjornstrand ). 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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