Overview

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?

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Cast

Max von Sydow

Harry Haller

Dominique Sanda

Hermine

Pierre Clémenti

Pablo

Carla Romanelli

Maria

Roy Bosier

Aztec

Alfred Baillou

Goethe

Helmut Förnbacher

Franz

Charles Regnier

Loering

Eduard Linkers

Mr. Hefte

Silvia Reize

Dora

Sunnyi Melles

Rosa