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Overview

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Director:
Ben Hopkins
Writers:
Rob Cheek (story)
Ben Hopkins (writer)
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Release Date:
11 February 2000 (Italy) more
Tagline:
A magical tale from a Vanished World. more
Plot:
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
A rapturous trance of a film more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Noah Taylor ... Simon

Stuart Townsend ... Dovid Bendel
Sean McGinley ... Maximillian Hase

Embeth Davidtz ... Leah
Amanda Ryan ... Sarah

Rutger Hauer ... Count Albrecht, the Squire

Ian Holm ... Sirius / Boris / The Devil
Terence Rigby ... Bratislav
Toby Jones ... Buchholz
Jim Dunk ... Saul
Ursula Jones ... Rebecca
Cyril Shaps ... Chaim
David de Keyser ... Rabbi
Ken Dury ... Priest
Tom Fisher ... Thomas
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Simon Magus: A Tale from a Vanished World (UK) (closing credits title)
Simon le magicien (France)
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Runtime:
101 min
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Netherlands:12 | Australia:MA (video rating) | Australia:PG (cable rating) | France:U | UK:PG
Filming Locations:
Wales, UK
Company:
Film Four more

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Quotes:
Simon: I have seen God, and he is a blind beggar peddling lies! He has sold the world to the Devil and left only the husk for himself! Satan is master here! The sparrow-eater! more
Soundtrack:
Piano Quintet in D Minor, Op 57 more

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A rapturous trance of a film, 14 September 2003
Author: jwarthen-1 from Massachusetts

I've just watched the last 15 minutes of SIMON MAGUS for about the fourth time-- Sundance shows it all the time, and maybe that channel's programer intends to give it the exposure it should have had, years ago. One imagines Director Hopkins is a spell-binder-- to have coaxed the exceptional cast onto an under-financed backwoods Welsh location, and then gotten them on the same wavelength despite trepidations about looking silly in shtetl-garb and forelocks. Ordinarily I am deeply aversive to holy-fool fictions-- yet this one made me privy to an ethnic communal memory; the end-credits express thanks to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and one imagines him loving it (a 1972 documentary on him had the same mixture of tomfoolery and elegy). A tone-deaf earlier commentator decried the sound-track-- will bet you'll sit all the way through the scroll of names, listening to the last variations on a score that, like everything else about this film, is a lovingly precise devotional.

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