Time Out London: "Golan's treatment, with its mixture of art house pretensions and vulgarity, founders at precisely those points where it departs from Isaac Bashevis Singer's original Yiddish novel. The film was a box office and critical failure. The title song The Magician was performed by Kate Bush. His burned out manager/impresario Wolsky (Lou Jacobi) arranges for him to have one more chance at theatrical success, which requires that he pull off the trick of a lifetime in a Warsaw theater. Nearly everywhere he goes, Yasha has a local girlfriend, from the youthful Zeftel (Valerie Perrine), to the feisty Elizabeta (Shelley Winters). He tours through eastern Europe for his show while at the same time destroying his own career progressively through his personal problems. In the story, Yasha Mazur (played by Alan Arkin) is a turn-of-the-20th-century Jewish stage magician, conman and mystic. The film is based on the novel 'The Magician Of Lublin' by Isaac Bashevis Singer. 1979 film co-written and directed by Menahem Golan.
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