Blu-ray
Persona
Call Number
- BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
In Swedish, with English subtitles.
Performers
Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Margaretha Krook, Jörgen Lindström.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrations ; 16 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A stage actor 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 creations.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; 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.