Persona

Name: Persona
Genre: Drama
Released: 1966-10-18
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström

Ingmar Bergman's most personal and original film.

Persona (1966)

Timing: 1:25 (85 min)

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$27 791

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström, Thích Quảng Đức
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Scenario

Producer

Ingmar Bergman

Operator

Sven Nykvist

Composer

Lars Johan Werle

Artist

Bibi Lindström

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Editing

Ulla Ryghe
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Short description

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

What's left behind the scenes

In the spring of 1965, Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) fell ill with pneumonia and was hospitalized, where he wrote the screenplay for "Persona."
Bergman originally planned to title the film "Cinema" (the picture begins with a demonstration of a film projector lamp lighting up, frames flashing, somewhere in the middle the film breaks, and at the end of the film the lamp goes out). However, the producer prevented this.
In ancient theater, the term 'Persona' referred to a mask through which an actor declaims their role. The term 'Persona' itself was borrowed by Ingmar Bergman from Carl Jung's philosophical theory concerning the relationship between 'Persona' and 'Anima' in life, where 'Persona' represents a mask portraying a specific role in society, concealing the true self. 'Anima,' or 'Animus,' is the collective image of the woman in a man's individual unconscious, and vice versa – an archetype opposite to the perfect image of the 'Persona.'
In ancient theater, the term 'Persona' refers to a mask through whose mouth opening the actor declaims their role. Ingmar Bergman borrowed the term 'Persona' from Carl Gustav Jung's philosophical theory regarding the connection between the 'Persona' and the 'Anima' in life, where the 'Persona' represents a mask depicting a specific social role while hiding the true self. The 'Anima,' or 'Animus,' is the collective image of a woman in a man's individual unconscious, and vice versa; it is the archetype opposite to the perfected image of the 'Persona'.
Bergman originally planned to call the film "Cinema" (the movie begins by showing the projector lamp lighting up, frames flicker, the film breaks somewhere in the middle, and the lamp goes out at the end). However, the producer prevented this.
In the spring of 1965, Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) was hospitalized with pneumonia, where he wrote the screenplay for "Persona."