Technical Specs

• BD-50 Blu-ray Disc

Video Resolution/Codec

• 1080p/TBA

Aspect Ratio(s)

• 1.33:1

Audio Formats

• Swedish PCM Mono

Subtitles/Captions

• English

Supplements

• 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
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoff Andrew, a reprinted essay by Assayas, and an excerpt from Bergman's autobiography Images: My Life in Film

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The Magician (Blu-ray)

Criterion / 1958 / 101 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: October 12, 2010

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Genres: Drama

Starring: Max Von Sydow
Director: Ingmar Bergman

Plot Synopsis: 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 mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test by a small town’s cruel, eminently rational minister of health, Dr. Vergerus. The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny, shot in rich, gorgeously gothic black and white.