Gertrud Fridh

Johan Borg (Max Von Sydow), an artist battling repressed desires, starts to lose his grip on reality while vacationing on a remote Scandinavian island with his wife Alma (Liv Ulmann).

Satan sends Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) to seduce a country priest's (Stig Järrel) chaste daughter (Bibi Andersson).

When the famous cellist Jarl Kulle bribes a critic to write his biography, the critic decides to blackmail him with the intimate details gleaned from the many women in his life.

Ingmar Bergman's The Magician 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 potion-peddler whose magic is put to the test by the cruel, rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus. The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that's both frightening and funny.