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The Magician(Movie, 1958)

Original title: "Ansiktet" (Swedish/SV)
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| 1h 41min | Genre: Drama
The MagicianRating: 3.7/5 (with 9090 votes)
Ansiktet (lit. Swedish: "The Face"), also released as The Magician, is a 1958 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin. The plot follows a traveling magician named Albert Vogler, whose allegedly supernatural live shows are challenged by the skeptical population of a small village. Blending elements of psychological drama and horror, the film was distantly inspired by G. K. Chesterton's play Magic. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Magician

Grand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)

About The Magician

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

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The Magician - Trailer(Trailer, 1:57)

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Additional Information

Production country: Sweden
Plays in: Stockholm
Original language: Swedish (SV)
Spoken languages: Swedish (SV)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 08/27/1959 (World premiere: 12/26/1958)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Allan Ekelund
Screenwriter: Ingmar Bergman
Film Editor: Oscar Rosander
Director of Photography: Gunnar Fischer
Composer: Erik Nordgren
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El mago"
"Het gelaat"
"Le visage"
"Лицето"
"O Rosto"
"面孔"
"Das Gesicht"
"Ansigtet"
"El rostro"
"Le visage"
"The Face"
"O anthropos me ta 2 prosopa"
"Arc"
"Il volto"
"El rostro"
"La cara"
"Het gezicht"
"Twarz"
"O Rosto"
"Lice"
"Лицо"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: The Magician (FR, 1898), The Magician (US, 1900), The Magician (US, 1926), The Magician (FR, 1960), The Magician (1962), The Magician (SU, 1968), The Magician (US, 1973), The Magician (GB, 1993), The Magician (EG, 2001), The Magician (AU, 2005), The Magician (TR, 2006), The Magician (CL, 2014), The Magician (KR, 2015)

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