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?
Max von Sydow
as Harry Haller
Dominique Sanda
as Hermine
Pierre Clémenti
as Pablo
Carla Romanelli
as Maria
Roy Bosier
as Aztec
Alfred Baillou
as Goethe
Niels-Peter Rudolph
as Gustav
Helmut Förnbacher
as Franz
Charles Regnier
as Loering
Eduard Linkers
as Mr. Hefte
Silvia Reize
as Dora
Sunnyi Melles
as Rosa
