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At its core, The Prestige tells the story of Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), two stage magicians in Victorian London locked in a deadly game of one-upmanship. The Prestige -2006- m720p - x264 - 600MB - YIFY
: The total file size. For a full-length movie like The Prestige (130 minutes), this is considered very small and highly compressed. In the vast ecosystem of digital film preservation,
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The film is famously structured like a magic trick in three parts: The Pledge (the setup), (the performance), and The Prestige (the final reveal). Accolades: