Selvänäkijä

Original title: Les magiciens

19751975
K-16K-16
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

164

YOUR RATING

Drama Thriller

While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edou... Read allWhile traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area. Meanwhile, t... Read allWhile traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area. Meanwhile, the Tunisian architect and engineer Sadry Fahres has relationship problems with his spoiled... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

164

YOUR RATING

Director
- Claude Chabrol
Writers
- Adriano Bolzoni(screenplay)
- Claude Chabrol(adaptaion)
- Frédéric Dard(novel "Initiation au meurtre")
Stars

See production, box office & company info

See more at IMDbPro

Photos17

Franco Nero and Stefania Sandrelli in Selvänäkijä (1975)

Gert Fröbe and Franco Nero in Selvänäkijä (1975)

Trivia
Claude Chabrol is well-known for the very inconsistent quality of his resume, being credited with having directed some of the best movies of French cinema along with some of the worst. His frequent collaborator, writer Paul Gégauff, claims that Chabrol didn't even bother to supervise the final editing of the movies he hadn't cared for in the first place and that he would immediately move on to something else. Having directed some infamous titles actually became a source of pride for Chabrol, although, in the documentary Grand manège: Qu'est-ce qui fait tourner Claude Chabrol? (2006), he stated that, at one point in his life, he became more careful and concerned about the quality of his projects and that he regards Selvänäkijä (1975) and Folies bourgeoises (1976) as his last movies that qualify as very bad.

User reviews4

Review

Featured review

6/10

Helping a Premonition to Come True

While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar (Gert Fröbe) befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard (Jean Rochefort) in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.

Meanwhile, the Tunisian architect and engineer Sadry Fahres (Franco Nero) has relationship problems with his spoiled wife Sylvia (Stefania Sandrelli), who refuses to visit her mother-in-law that is terminal. Sadry meets his former mistress Martine (Gila von Weitershausen) and she travels with him to visit his mother, rekindling their passion.

Edouard observers the behavior of the trio of lover and decides to help the vision of Professor Vestar to come true, intriguing each one of them to force the murder.

"Les Magiciens" is a weird thriller by Claude Chabrol with a story of an idle man that decides to help a premonition of a clairvoyant to come true. The plot is original but this film is not among the best of Chabrol's filmography. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Profecia de um Delito" ("Profecy of a Crime")

helpful•7