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The Magician

The Magician (Ansiktet). Ingmar Bergman, 1958.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #537, included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence toward animals.

The Magician is disc #19 in Criterion’s 30-Blu-ray Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Centerpiece 2’), and is accompanied by  a 4-minute introduction by Bergman (1967), an enjoyable 15-minute video essay about the film’s themes by Peter Cowie (2010), and a 21-minute audio interview with Bergman conducted by Olivier Assayas and Stig Björkman (1990).