Persona

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An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares 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.

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Other Authors: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007 (Screenwriter), Andersson, Bibi, 1935-2019 (Actor), Ullmann, Liv (Actor), Krook, Margaretha, 1925-2001 (Actor), Björnstrand, Gunnar, 1909-1986 (Actor), Nykvist, Sven (director of photography.), Mago, 1925- (Costume designer), Werle, Lars Johan (composer (expression)), Schrader, Paul, 1946- (interviewee (expression)), Steene, Birgitta (Commentator)
Format: DVD
Language:Swedish
English
Published: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Edition:Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 701.
Subjects:
Ullmann, Liv.
Bergman, Ingmar, > 1918-2007.
Bergman, Ingmar, > 1918-2007
Mentally ill women > Care > Drama.
Nurse and patient > Drama.
Mutism > Psychosomatic aspects > Drama.
Identity (Psychology) > Drama.
Nurses > Drama.
Actresses > Drama.
Nurses.
Nurse and patient.
Mentally ill women > Care.
Identity (Psychology)
Actresses.
DVD-Video discs.
Foreign films.
Feature films > Sweden.
Foreign language films > Swedish.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Drama.
Films de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Summary:An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares 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.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Special features: DVD Disc 1: Persona's prologue : a poem in images (new visual essay on the film's prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie, 20 mins.); Interviews (Bibi Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, and Liv Ullmann (1966), Ingmar Bergman (1970), Liv Ullman (2013), Paul Schrader (2013)); On-set footage (18 mins. of silent, black-and-white footage shot during production, with audio commentary by Ingmar Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene); Trailer. DVD Disc 2: Liv & Ingmar (a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar; 84 min.). Blu-ray contains all special features. Booklet features essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray disc (83 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Format:DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Blu-ray, region A, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits:Photography, Sven Nykvist ; production design, Bibi Lindström ; costume design, Mago ; film editing, Ulla Ryghe ; music, Lars Johan Werle.
ISBN:9781604658125
1604658126

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