Persona

Persona (1966)

Timing: 1:24 (84 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1966-10-18

Country

Sweden

Production

SF Studios

Genre

Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$12 142

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström
All actors and roles (5)

Scenario

Producer

Ingmar Bergman

Operator

Sven Nykvist

Composer

Lars Johan Werle

Artist

Audition

Editing

Ulla Ryghe
All team (19)

• In ancient theatre, the term "Persona" denoted a mask through whose mouth opening the actor declaims their role. The term "Persona" itself was borrowed by Ingmar Bergman from Carl Gustav Jung's philosophical theory concerning the connection between "Persona" and "Anima" in life, where "Persona" represents a mask portraying a specific role in society, while concealing the true "self." "Anima," or "Animus," is the collective image of a woman in a man's individual unconscious, and vice versa; it is an archetype, opposite to the perfect image of the "Persona."
• Bergman initially planned to name the film "Cinema" (the film begins with a depiction of a cinema projector lamp lighting up, flashes of frames, somewhere in the middle the film breaks, and at the end of the film the lamp goes out). However, the producer prevented this.
• In the spring of 1965, Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) fell ill with pneumonia and was hospitalized, where he wrote the screenplay for "Persona."
• 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.'
• 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.