Drama | Mystery | Sweden | Swedish w/Eng subs | B&W | 84min (uncut) | Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand In this genre-blurring, minimalist masterpiece from Ingmar Bergman, famed Swedish stage stress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) suffers a moment of complete blankness during a performance and the next day lapses into total silence. Advised by her doctor to take time off to recover from what appears to be an emotional breakdown, Elisabeth goes to a beach house on the Baltic Sea with only Anna (Bibi Andersson), a nurse, as company. Over the next several weeks, as Anna struggles to reach her mute patient, the two women find themselves experiencing a strange emotional convergence. Arguably one of Ingmar Bergman's finest films, Persona explores the human condition with intense curiosity, immense technical skill, and beguiling warmth. In the spring of 1965, Ingmar Bergman was admitted to the Sophia Hospital in Stockholm for double pneumonia and acute penicillin poisoning. While hospitalized, he created the basic script of this movie.