The Great Magician(Movie, 2011)

Name: The Great Magician
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 2011
Duration: T02:8:00
Rating: 3.1

Original title: "大魔術師" (Chinese (Mandarin)/ZH)

2h 8min | Genres: Drama, Mystery

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

The Great Magician (大魔术师; 大魔術師; dà móshù shī) is a 2011 Hong Kong action fantasy comedy film based on a 2009 novel by Zhang Haifan. It was directed by Derek Yee and starred Tony Leung, Sean Lau and Zhou Xun. Set in Beijing in the 1920s, the film tells the story of an illusionist who returns from overseas to find his fiancée, who has been kidnapped by a warlord hoping to make her his seventh wife. ()

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Available languages: Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin) (Original)
Available subtitles: German, English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin) (Simplified Chinese), Chinese (Mandarin) (Traditional Chinese)
Duration: 2h 8min
Genres: Chinese Movies / Movies Based on Books / Action \x26 Adventure / Comedies
Keywords: Starring Xun Zhou / Starring Ching Wan Lau / Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai / Mandarin Movies \x26 Tv / Action Comedies / Hong Kong Movies \x26 Tv / Asian Action / Chinese Movies \x26 Tv / 20th Century Period Pieces / Politics / East Asian Movies \x26 Tv / Based On A Book / Action \x26 Adventure / International
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Awards & Nominations for The Great Magician

nominated for: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress

About The Great Magician

In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

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Trailer for The Great Magician + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Great Magician Trailer (Tony Leung)(Trailer, 1:27)

Additional Information

Production countries: People's Republic of China, Hong Kong

Made by: Bona Film Group, Emperor Motion Pictures, Bona International Film Group, Bona Entertainment, Film Unlimited

Original language: Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Indonesian (ID), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/22/2011

Cast: Tony Leung, Yan Ni, Lau Ching-Wan, Paul Chun, Vincent Kok, Zhou Xun, Daniel Wu, Tsui Hark, Kenya Sawada, Lam Suet, Berg Ng

Director: Derek Yee

Screenwriter: Derek Yee

Executive Producer: Yu Dong, Albert Yeung

Film Editor: Kwong Chi-Leung

Director of Photography: Kita Nobuyasu

Composer: Leon Ko

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"大魔術師"

Keywords: magician, 1920s

Budget: 15,000,000 USD

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