A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.
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Prestige, cool, open-ended and spare.
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- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- Max von SydowAlbert Emanuel Vogler
- Ingrid ThulinManda Vogler
- Gunnar BjörnstrandDr. Vergerus / Minister of Health
- Naima WifstrandGranny Vogler
- Bengt EkerotJohan Spegel
- Bibi AnderssonSara Lindqvist
- Gertrud FridhOttilia
- Lars EkborgSimson
- Toivo PawloStarbeck
- Erland JosephsonConsul Egerman
Crew
- Ingmar BergmanDirector
- Ingmar BergmanWriter
- Gunnar FischerDirector of Photography
- Erik NordgrenOriginal Music Composer
- Oscar RosanderEditor
- Allan EkelundProducer
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