Simon Magus is the local 'weirdie', played by Noah Taylor, who is used by the forces of 'progress' - represented by Ian Holm - to sabotage the communal opposition and trigger a pogrom. Rutger ...

Still, he has more than enough to work with. Following a preliminary chapter reflecting on the ancient magician Simon Magus and the doctrines of Gnosticism, which posits that this world was ...