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The Magician (Ansiktet) (Criterion Collection)

Criterion/Voyager (1958)

Drama | Foreign

Sweden | Swedish | Color | 01:40

#1852

7.6

10,965

Criterion

NR (Not Rated)

715515063913

| 1 disc

Region 1 | Region A

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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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	Max Von Sydow	Albert Emanuel Vogler
	Ingrid Thulin	Manda Vogler (alias Mr. Aman)
	Gunnar Bjornstrand	Dr. Vergerus / Minister of Health
	Naima Wifstrand	Granny Vogler
	Bengt Ekerot	Johan Spegel
	Bibi Andersson	Sara Lindqvist
	Gertrud Fridh	Ottilia Egerman
	Lars Ekborg	Simson / the coach driver
	Toivo Pawlo	Police Superintendant Starbeck
	Erland Josephson	Consul Egerman
	Ake Fridell	Tubal
	Sif Ruud	Sofia Garp
	Oscar Ljung	Antonsson / burly stableman
	Ulla Sjöblom	Henrietta Starbeck
	Axel Duberg	Rustan / young manservant
	Birgitta Pettersson	Sanna
	Frithiof Bjärne	Border Officer
	Tor Borong	Border Officer
	Arne Martensson	Customs Officer
	Harry Schein	Customs officer

Crew View all

Director	Ingmar Bergman
Writer	Ingmar Bergman
Producer	Allan Ekelund
Musician	Erik Nordgren
Photography	Gunnar Fischer

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Edition details

Screen Ratios	Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks	SUB [English]
Distributor	Criterion
Edition Release Date	Oct 12, 2010

Notes

Disc Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New visual essay by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
Brief 1967 video interview with director Ingmar Bergman about the film
Rare English-language audio interview with Bergman conducted by filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Stig Björkman in 1990
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring excerpts from a 1990 tribute to the film by Assayas, a new essay by critic Geoff Andrew, and an excerpt from Bergman’s autobiography Images: My Life in Film

New cover by Michael Boland

Links

Ansiktet at Core for Movies

IMDB

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