The magic fascinates, intrigues and defies the intelligence. The power tends to the omnipotence. So when an impressive
magician
makes impossible tricks in front of the eyes of a magnificent prince, nothing belong to its place, nothing is what it seems. Mainly if both agree in the way of the same beautiful woman, reserved by her father for the nobility, she was an old girlfriend from the adolescence of the wander Eissenheim and now she is the heir of the throne’s fiancée, the prince Leopold, confirmed stray and also, according to their own town, mistreated of women and an assassin.
In the middle, an honest but cynical police alternates his admiration for the even and serious illusionist with his willingness for the serious, pragmatic and ambitious son of the old Austria’s emperor. The real power is in front of the power of the
illusion.
The obedience of what it must be is faced to the love that resurges uncontrollable after long years of mix-up.
The questioned governor intrigues himself in front of the valued artist who deceives. The master of the life of his sudden by imposition is irritated in the presence of the prestidigitator that surprises and captivates them. The prince, owner of the power, will do the impossible thing to leave naked the tricks used by his enigmatic contender, owner of an exquisite baggage, inheritance of his journey by a very abundant world that he had to cross hardly alone.
It has arrived the moment to find out if those tricks learned in a distant and strange earth are useful to maintain him safe from the miserable side of the power or, on the contrary, are transformed into a dangerous sword of double edge. Is the moment to walk without some network on the very thin thread that separates his personal power, based on the illusion of envies and the pragmatisms whose operates the real edge power.
Skillful work of Edward Norton, a
magician of the performance, that gives life to Eissenheim, The Ilusionist.