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11 February 2000 (Italy) moreTagline:
A magical tale from a Vanished World. morePlot:
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 synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 5 nominations moreUser Comments:
A rapturous trance of a film moreCast
(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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Simon Magus: A Tale from a Vanished World (UK) (closing credits title)Simon le magicien (France)
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101 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Netherlands:12 | Australia:MA (video rating) | Australia:PG (cable rating) | France:U | UK:PGFilming Locations:
Wales, UKFun Stuff
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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! moreSoundtrack:
Piano Quintet in D Minor, Op 57 moreFAQ
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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.