Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions, is put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational loyal medical medical adviser Dr. Vergérus.

Some six centuries after The Seventh Seal, Max von Sydow is back with Bergman in one of the latter’s most underrated films. Questioning truth and illusion, The Magician announces some of the themes that would dominate Bergman’s ‘Faith’ trilogy, beginning years later with Through a Glass Darkly.