Twenty years ago when the Marvelous Barastro was young man he traveled as a magician with a small carnival across Eastern Europe. One night the settled in a small village in Russia and the villagers gathered around them. It was here that he met the woman who was blind with her grandfather and he could not bear to tell her her future and the agony that laid ahead for her. Orson Welles stars as "The Marvelous Barastro"—a Russian magician traveling across Europe. He meets a blind woman named Anna who asks for her palm to be read. Barastro foresees only pain and torment within her future, but overtaken so much by her beauty he disregards the omen and marries her. It is a beautiful marriage and a wonderful affair, until one fateful day when another magician visits Barastro...

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