Magician, The

Presents an anti-war film in the form of allegory about a magician who attracts a group of children at the beach. Shows how he begins by amusing them with innocent tricks, then leads them in playing with toy guns and finally, has them playing with real guns.
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Presents an anti-war film in the form of allegory about a magician who attracts a group of children at the beach. Shows how he begins by amusing them with innocent tricks, then leads them in playing with toy guns and finally, has them playing with real guns.

"From former Nazi-occupied Poland comes Tad Makarczynski's The Magician (1962), a pied-piperesque allegory of several young boys recruited to be soldiers by a nefarious magician."
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