The Magician

1958 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 11,351 VOTES · DIR. Ingmar Bergman

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 757 lines

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00:00:16 THE MAGICIAN
00:06:45 ...and am actually a member of the famous Stenborg Troupe.
00:09:46 A question for the future, Sire, and the future is as uninteresting as the past.
00:15:43 I and particularly my wife, have a special interest in spiritual questions.
00:18:34 - Your friend, Mr Tubal... - We use devices, mirrors, projections.
00:21:29 Commissioner, that's our Laterna Magica.
00:24:35 - that's needed so that you can hold your "magnetic entertainment".
00:27:39 Good evening, young maids.
00:30:36 - Would you allow me to buy a bottle? - It's impossible.
00:33:38 When you are almost 200 years old, you will also be ugly, little one.
00:36:49 - Perhaps I'm sick. - It's the love potion.
00:40:02 It's the newly ironed laundry. And the winter apples over there.
00:43:02 ...is living or will be. - I don't know what you mean.
00:46:43 - Faces? - That's right.
00:50:34 What God meant. That is why you have come.
00:56:04 - My respects to Mrs Egerman. - You'll find your room?
00:59:14 You say that you are afraid? Of me too?
01:03:22 He was very noble. Still promised to recommend us to the Swedish court.
01:07:34 He eats like a pig and farts at the table.
01:13:49 - What does it mean, if one dares ask? - It means...
01:16:36 - "or abnormalities and must class the phenomenon that appeared" -
01:24:29 As it's inconceivable I've lost my reason, I'll attend my awakening.
01:31:24 You're looking at my pouches, aren't you? And perhaps you're wondering?
01:35:47 But be careful, they are precious objects.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed757
Dialogue density7.5 lines / min
First line00:00:16
Final line01:35:47

Production Record

DirectorIngmar Bergman
LanguageSwedish
IMDb votes11,351