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By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman (THE SEVENTH SEAL) had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann (SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE) plays an actress who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson (WILD STRAWBERRIES) is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark shadows and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist (CRIES AND WHISPERS), PERSONA is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
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Product Details
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Directors: Ingmar Bergman
Format: Subtitled
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: March 25, 2014
Run Time: 83 minutes
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 translaton; One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman On Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson
Cast & Crew
Bibi Andersson Nurse Alma
Liv Ullmann Actress Elisabeth Vogler
Margareta Krook doctor
Gunnar Björnstrand Mr. Vogler
Jörgen Lindström Elisabet's Young Son
Technical Credits
Ingmar Bergman Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Evald Andersson Special Effects
Lars-Owe Carlberg Producer
Tina Johansson Makeup
Bibi Lindstrom Production Designer
Borje Lundh Makeup
Mago Costumes/Costume Designer
Sven Nykvist Cinematographer
P.O. Pettersson Sound/Sound Designer
Ulla Ryghe Editor
Lars Johan Werle Score Composer
Scene Index
Disc #1 -- Persona
1. Prologue [7:14]
2. Mrs. Vogler's Situation [6:13]
3. Nurse Alma [6:04]
4. "A Fantastic Part" [2:37]
5. Seaside Stay [2:21]
6. A Good Listener [3:34]
7. Sunbathing [6:55]
8. "Go To Bed" [5:36]
9. Elisabet's Letter [2:55]
10. Broken Glass [4:02]
11. "Talk to Me" [6:42]
12. Rotten [5:56]
13. Night Terrors [6:09]
14. Elisabet's Little Boy [8:40]
15. "You Won't Get to Me" [4:59]
16. The End [3:55]
1. Color Bars [:20]
Disc #2 -- Persona: Live & Ingmar
1. Introduction [5:49]
2. Love [11:10]
3. Loneliness [9:27]
4. Rage [9:22]
5. Pain [13:58]
6. Longing [10:19]
7. Friendship [8:55]
8. Peace [15:12]
Menu
Disc #1 -- Persona
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Chapters
Supplements
Persona's Prologue: A Poem in Images
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Interviews
Bibi Anderson, Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, 1966
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Ingmar Bergman, 1970
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Liv Ullmann, 2013
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Paul Schrader, 2013
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On-Set Footage
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Trailer
Subtitles
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Disc #2 -- Persona: Live & Ingmar
About Liv & Ingmar
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Subtitles
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Subtitles: SDH
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