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Persona (Original title)Masks (Alternative title)Diabolic Women (Alternative title)
Date: 31 August 1966 (Release)

Country: Sweden

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Synopsis: The interaction of two women who resemble each other very closely physically. One keeps silent and the other carries on a monologue.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Human communication, Arts
Releases
Date: 31 August 1966Country: SwedenRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 81 mins Length: 7290 FeetSubtitles: Swedish
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 81 mins Dialogue (original): SwedishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): Swedish

Credits (23)
Production Company: Svensk Filmindustri, Production Manager: Lars-Owe Carlberg, Production Supervisor: Bo Vibenius, Assistant Director: Lenn Hjortzberg, Script Supervisor: Kerstin Berg, Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman, Director of Photography: Sven Nykvist, Camera Operator: Anders Bodin, Focus Puller: Lars Johnsson, Editor: Ulla Ryghe, Art Director: Bibi Lindström, Properties: Karl Arne Bergman, Costumes: Mago, Costume Assistant: Eivor Kullberg, Make-up: Börje Lundh, Make-up: Tina Johansson, Music: Lars Johan Werle, Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Sound: P.O. Pettersson, Sound Assistant: Lennart Engholm, Mixing: Olle Jakobsson, Sound Effects: Evald Andersson
Cast (5)
Bibi Andersson (Nurse Alma), Liv Ullmann (Elisabet Vogler), Margaretha Krook (doctor), Gunnar Björnstrand (Mr Vogler), Jörgen Lindström ([boy])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (61)
In: New review of film and television studies v7 n3 September 2009  Pages: 325-338
Title: Research article: Affective telepathy, or the intuition...Author: LAINE, Tarja Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: "...of the heart: Persona with Mullholland Drive". Explores the shared cinematice experience of love, passion, emotion and matter of the heart in PERSONA and MULHOLLAND DRIVE.

In: Cinema Retro v3 n7 2007  Pages: 8-10
Title: Benson turns back the clock - 1966Author: BENSON, Raymond Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: The author briefly examines the cinema of 1966 and lists his top ten films from that year.

In: Cinema Retro v2 n4 Winter 2006  Pages: 36-39
Title: Discover BergmanAuthor: BENSON, Raymond Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: An appreciation of the work of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, including brief critiques of recommended films.

In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video v22 n2 Apr-Jun 2005  Pages: 125-134
Title: Memories, dreams, screensAuthor: PERLMUTTER, Ruth Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: The author analyses a number of films which make use of dreams and memories to express the tension between remembe- ring and repressing an unacceptable past.

In: CinémAction n114 2005  Pages: 125-128
Title: Cinquante couples insolitesAuthor: ESTÈVE, Michel Article type: ArticleLanguage: French
Description: Analysis of unconventional relationships in films produced between the 1920s and 1980s around the world, including Bergman's PERSONA.

In: American Cinematographer v85 n5 May 2004  Page: 18,20
Title: DVD PlaybackAuthor: PIZZELLO, Stephen Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English

In: Empire n165 March 2003  Page: 47
Title: The reviewsAuthor: PETERS, Patrick Article type: CreditsLanguage: English

In: Sight and Sound v13 n6 June 2003  Page: 65
Title: Home movies: reviewsAuthor: MACNAB, Geoffrey Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English

In: Film Review n628 March 2003  Page: 82
Title: New movies: PersonaAuthor: LAIGHT, Rupert Article type: CreditsLanguage: English

In: Filmwaves n21 2003  Page: 54
Title: Books/VHSAuthor: MZJ Article type: Video ReviewLanguage: English

In: Empire n168 June 2003  Page: 146
Title: RWDAuthor: [ND] Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English

In: Metro n120 1999  Pages: 101-102
Title: CTEQ annotations on filmAuthor: CAPUTO, Rolando Article type: ReviewLanguage: English

In: Cinema Scope n1 1999  Page: 86
Title: Cinema Scope reviewAuthor: ROEBUCK, Laura Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
Description: Reviews of films shown in 1999 Toronto International Film Festival.

In: CineAction! n40 May 1996  Pages: 22-31
Title: Bergman's Persona: Rites of Spring as a Chamber PlayAuthor: PERSSON, Göran Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Psychiatrist Göran Persson re-assesses PERSONA.

In: Film Comment v26 n6 Nov/Dec 1990  Pages: 38-39,42
Title: Children of paradiseAuthor: MURPHY, Kathleen Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Analysis of the film TOPIO STIN OMICHLI, comparing it to Bergman's PERSONA.

In: Literature/Film Quarterly v15 n2 1987  Pages: 123-136
Title: [Literature/Film Quarterly - v15 n2 1987: no known title]Language: English

In: The Listener v116 n2984 30 Oct 1986  Pages: 32-33
Title: [The Listener - v116 n2984 30 Oct 1986: no known title]Language: English

In: Film/Psychology Review v4 n1 Win/Spr 1980  Pages: Winter-Spring 15-25
Title: [Film/Psychology Review - v4 n1 Win/Spr 1980: no known title]Language: English

In: Literature/Film Quarterly v7 n1 1979  Pages: 47-59
Title: [Literature/Film Quarterly - v7 n1 1979: no known title]Language: English
Description: Comparison with Anais Nin's prose-poem, "House of Incest.

In: Cinema Journal v19 n1 Autumn 1979  Pages: Fall 71-85
Title: [Cinema Journal - v19 n1 Autumn 1979: no known title]Language: English
Description: Analysis.

In: Film Criticism v2 n2/3 Win/Spr 1978  Pages: Winter/Spring 72-77
Title: [Film Criticism - v2 n2/3 Win/Spr 1978: no known title]Language: English
Description: Analysis.

In: Literature/Film Quarterly v5 n1 Winter 1977  Pages: Winter 75-88
Title: [Literature/Film Quarterly - v5 n1 Winter 1977: no known title]Language: English

In: Movie n15 1968  Pages: 22-24
Title: [Movie - n15 1968: no known title]Language: English

In: Avant-Scène du Cinéma n85 October 1968  Pages: 1-38
Title: [L'Avant-Scène du Cinéma - n85 October 1968: no known title]Article type: ScriptLanguage: French
Description: Script.

In: Monthly Film Bulletin v34 n406 November 1967  Page: 169
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v34 n406 November 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Kosmorama n80 July 1967  Page: 222
Title: [Kosmorama - n80 July 1967: no known title]Language: Danish

In: Films and Filming v14 n3 December 1967  Page: 20
Title: [Films and Filming - v14 n3 December 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Sight and Sound v36 n4 Autumn 1967  Pages: Autumn 186-191,212
Title: [Sight and Sound - v36 n4 Autumn 1967: no known title]Language: English
Description: Essay by Susan Sontag.

In: Bianco e Nero v28 n2 February 1967  Page: 77
Title: [Bianco e Nero - v28 n2 February 1967: no known title]Language: Italian

In: Art et Essai n23 29 Mar 1967  Pages: 38-40
Title: [Art et Essai - n23 29 Mar 1967: no known title]Language: French

In: Rivista del Cinematografo n2 February 1967  Page: 127
Title: [Rivista del Cinematografo - n2 February 1967: no known title]Language: Italian

In: Cahiers du Cinéma n189 April 1967  Page: 51
Title: [Cahiers du Cinéma - n189 April 1967: no known title]Language: French

In: Filmkritik n9 September 1967  Page: 507/508
Title: [Filmkritik - n9 September 1967: no known title]Language: German

In: Cahiers du Cinéma n188 March 1967  Page: 20
Title: [Cahiers du Cinéma - n188 March 1967: no known title]Language: French

In: The Film Daily v130 n43 6 Mar 1967  Page: 3
Title: [The Film Daily - v130 n43 6 Mar 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Motion Picture Herald v237 n11 15 Mar 1967  Page: 666
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v237 n11 15 Mar 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: The Daily Cinema n9429 4 Oct 1967  Page: 6,16
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n9429 4 Oct 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Cinema Nuovo v20 n185 Jan/Feb 1967  Page: 33
Title: [Cinema Nuovo - v20 n185 Jan/Feb 1967: no known title]Language: Italian

In: Kine Weekly n3129 30 Sep 1967  Page: 20
Title: [Kine Weekly - n3129 30 Sep 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Filmcritica n174 February 1967  Page: 37
Title: [Filmcritica - n174 February 1967: no known title]Language: Italian
Description: Script.

In: Le Film Francais n1204 21 Jul 1967  Page: 11
Title: [ Le Film Francais - n1204 21 Jul 1967: no known title]Language: French

In: Cineforum n61 January 1967  Pages: 23-44
Title: [Cineforum - n61 January 1967: no known title]Language: Italian
Description: Script.

In: Cineforum n61 January 1967  Pages: 44-49
Title: [Cineforum - n61 January 1967: no known title]Language: Italian
Description: Detailed discussion.

In: Film (Poland) v22 n12 19 Mar 1967  Pages: 12-13
Title: [Film (Poland) - v22 n12 19 Mar 1967: no known title]Language: Polish

In: The Hollywood Reporter v195 n18 10 Apr 1967  Page: 3
Title: [The Hollywood Reporter - v195 n18 10 Apr 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Films in Review v18 n4 April 1967  Pages: 244-246
Title: [Films in Review - v18 n4 April 1967: no known title]Language: English

In: Positif n88 October 1967  Page: 45
Title: [Positif - n88 October 1967: no known title]Language: French

In: Cahiers du Cinéma n175 February 1966  Page: 13
Title: [Cahiers du Cinéma - n175 February 1966: no known title]Language: French

In: Fant n7-8 1966  Pages: 11-18
Title: [Fant - n7-8 1966: no known title]Language: Norwegian

In: Chaplin n67 November 1966  Page: 301
Title: [Chaplin - n67 November 1966: no known title]Language: Swedish
Description: Analysis by Torsten Manns.

In: Cahiers du Cinéma n179 June 1966  Page: 10
Title: [Cahiers du Cinéma - n179 June 1966: no known title]Language: French

In: Variety 30 Nov 1966  Page: 6
Title: [Variety - 30 Nov 1966: no known title]Language: English

In: Filmrutan v9 n4 1966  Pages: 227-229
Title: [Filmrutan - v9 n4 1966: no known title]Language: Swedish

In: Film in Sweden n3 1965  Page: 2
Title: [Film in Sweden - n3 1965: no known title]Language: English

In: Filmblätter n36 8 Sep 1950  Page: 824
Title: [Filmblätter - n36 8 Sep 1950: no known title]Language: German

In:   Page: 8
Title: [ - : no known title]

In:   Pages: 1-13
Title: [ - : no known title]

In:   Pages: Winter 10-19
Title: [ - : no known title]
Description: Analysis.

In:   Pages: 32-45
Title: [ - : no known title]
Description: On the making.

In:   Page: 31
Title: [ - : no known title]

In:   Page: Fall/Winter 63
Title: [ - : no known title]
Description: Review by Erwin Leiser.


Books held in BFI Reuben Library (29)
Title: cinephile poems
Author: Price, Alan  Pages: 115 pages

Title: Screening the face
Author: COATES, Paul  Pages: vii, 195 pages

Title: Film theory: an introduction through the senses
Author: ELSAESSER, Thomas  Pages: viii, 222 p.

Title: new film history: sources, methods, approaches
Author: CHAPMAN, James  Pages: xi, 256 p.

Title: The films of Ingmar Bergman: illusions of light and darkness
Author: HUBNER, Laura  Pages: v, 189 p.

Title: Revolution! The explosion of world cinema in the 60s
Author: Cowie, Peter  Pages: xviii, 286 p.

Title: Ingmar Bergman's Persona
Author: MICHAELS, Lloyd  Pages: ix-xiv, 191p.

Title: phantom of the cinema: character in modern film
Author: MICHAELS, Lloyd  Pages: 191p.

Title: Sexual politics and narrative film: Hollywood and beyond
Author: WOOD, Robin  Pages: i-x, 352p.

Title: Philosophy and film
Author: FREELAND, Cynthia A  Pages: 258p.

Title: Images: my life in film
Author: BERGMAN, Ingmar  Pages: 442p.
Description: Translated from the Swedish by Marianne Ruuth

Title: Cinema and modernity
Author: ORR, John  Pages: 224p.
Description: Jean-Luc GODARD pp.132-43 PERSONA PP.115-26 Wim WENDERS pp.97-107

Title: Filmdiktaren Ingmar Bergman
Author: TORNQVIST, Egil  Pages: 142p.
Description: Text in Swedish

Title: Modernist montage: the obscurity of vision in cinema and literature
Author: SITNEY, P. Adams  Pages: 250p.

Title: Film and the interpretive process: a study of Blow-Up, Rashomon, Citizen Kane, 8.5, Vertigo and Persona
Author: BOYD, David  Pages: 236p.

Title: Philosophy of the film: epistemology, ontology, aesthetics
Author: JARVIE, Ian  Pages: 392 pages

Title: influence of existentialism on Ingmar Bergman: an analysis of the theological ideas shaping a film maker's art
Author: KETCHAM, Charles B  Pages: 381p

Title: Persona: the transcendent image
Author: BLACKWELL, Marilyn Johns  Pages: 121 pages

Title: Film & the dream screen: a sleep and a forgetting
Author: EBERWEIN, Robert T  Pages: 247p.

Title: Self and cinema: a transformalist perspective
Author: HOUSTON, Beverle  Pages: 467p.
Description: l' ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD pp. 261-276 Il DESERTO ROSSO pp. 195-215 Une FEMME DOUCE pp. 215-231 The MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH pp. 380-443 PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE pp. 146-169 PERSONA pp. 37-53 RITEN pp. 53-73 SWEET MOVIE pp. 123-146 El TOPO pp. 287-303 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY pp. 304-313 WALKABOUT pp. 444-460 WEEKEND pp. 99-123 ZARDOZ pp. 313-326 Nicolas ROEG pp. 345-467

Title: Godard and others: essays in film form
Author: GIANNETTI, Louis  Pages: 184p.
Description: ALICE'S RESTAURANT pp. 162-179 MASCULIN FEMININ pp. 19-59 PERSONA pp. 118-131 PSYCHO pp. 118-131

Title: Persona, Vergtimmen, Skammen, en Passion
Author: BERGMAN, Ingmar  Pages: 180p
Description: Film stories.

Title: Ingmar Bergman directs
Author: SIMON, John  Pages: 316p.
Description: Studies of Sawdust and tinsel, Smiles of a summer night, Winter light and Persona, with a Bergman interview. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.

Title: Persona and Shame: the screenplays of Ingmar Bergman
Author: BERGMAN, Ingmar  Pages: 191p.
Description: Translated from the Swedish.

Title: Sex, psyche etcetera in the film
Author: TYLER, Parker  Pages: 240 pages
Description: ALL THE KING'S MEN pp. 97-105 BLOW UP pp. 114-131 PERSONA pp. 114-131 Michelangelo ANTONIONI pp. 83-96 Orson WELLES pp. 135-148

Title: Sex, psyche etcetera in the film
Author: TYLER, Parker  Pages: 239p.
Description: ALL THE KING'S MEN pp. 97-105 BLOW UP pp. 114-131 PERSONA pp. 114-131 Michelangelo ANTONIONI pp. 83-96 Orson WELLES pp. 135-148

Title: Styles of radical will
Author: SONTAG, Susan  Pages: 274p
Description: Includes essays: Theatre and film, Bergman's Persona, Godard. PERSONA pp. 123-146 Jean-Luc GODARD pp. 147-192

Title: Persona
Author: BERGMAN, Ingmar  Pages: 52 pages
Description: Screenplay in French.

Title: Childhood and cinema
Author: LEBEAU, Vicky  Pages: 221 p.


Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
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Film materials(3)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedStock date: 2016BFI identifier: N-714406
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Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedBFI identifier: N-750465
Status: Viewing - Access to film print is subject to clearance