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.

Written and Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Cinematography by Sven Nykvist

Assistant camera: Anders Bodin & Lars Johnsson

Assistant Director: Lenn Hjortzberg

Original Music by Lars Johan Werle

Edited by Ulla Ryghe

Production Design by Bibi Lindström

Costume Design by Mago

Makeup by Börje Lundh

Sound by P.O. Pettersson & Lennart Engholm

Production Manager: Lars-Owe Carlberg

Studio Manager: Bo Arne Vibenius

Script Supervisor: Kerstin Berg

Starring Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand and Jörgen Lindström