Le Sorcier, sold in the United States as The Witch's Revenge and in Britain as The Sorcerer's Revenge, is a 1903 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès.
It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 473–475 in its catalogues.
[1] In a courtly setting, a king condemns an old sorcerer to be chained to a post and tortured.
The sorcerer, begging for mercy, attempts to entertain the court with magic, conjuring up a classical tableau vivant and making a chair spin of its own accord.
Méliès plays the sorcerer, whose magic is created using a combination of stage machinery, trap doors, substitution splices, multiple exposures, and dissolves.