The Illusionist (2006)

Robert Russell: Spiritualist Leader

Quotes 

• Spiritualist Leader : [Regarding Eisenheim's latest stage performance, in which he conjured up lifelike apparitions of dead people]  With these spirits, these manifestations, Eisenheim has given us hard proof of the soul's immortality. The spirit has been reaffirmed in the face of modern scientific materialism. The work of spiritualism will rouse humanity to a new moral earnestness! It is a revolutionary movement and we will turn the Empire into a spiritual republic.