Persona
By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women undergo a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference. Performed with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by Sven Nykvist, the influential Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
Special Features
- New, 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New visual essay on the film’s prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
- New interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Paul Schrader
- Excerpted archival interviews with Bergman, Ullmann, and actor Bibi Andersson
- On-set footage, with audio commentary by Bergman historian Birgitta Steene
- Liv & Ingmar, a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson
New cover by Sarah Habibi
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New, 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New visual essay on the film’s prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
- New interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Paul Schrader
- Excerpted archival interviews with Bergman, Ullmann, and actor Bibi Andersson
- On-set footage, with audio commentary by Bergman historian Birgitta Steene
- Liv & Ingmar, a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson
New cover by Sarah Habibi
Cast
- Bibi Andersson
- Nurse Alma
- Liv Ullmann
- Elisabet Vogler
- Margaretha Krook
- The doctor
- Gunnar Björnstrand
- Elisabet’s husband
- Jörgen Lindström
- The boy
Credits
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Written by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cinematography
- Sven Nykvist
- Assistant camera
- Anders Bodin
- Assistant camera
- Lars Johnsson
- Editing
- Ulla Ryghe
- Composer
- Lars Johan Werle
- Sound
- P. O. Pettersson
- Sound
- Lennart Engholm
- Assistant director
- Lenn Hjortzberg
- Production designer
- Bibi Lindström
- Costume design
- Mago
- Makeup
- Börje Lundh
- Production manager
- Lars-Owe Carlberg
- Studio manager
- Bo Arne Vibenius
- Script supervisor
- Kerstin Berg
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