Persona and Shame - Softcover

Ingmar Bergman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670158666 ISBN 13: 9780670158669

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1972

Synopsis

Ingmar Bergman is still the doyen of cinema. He is known for masterpieces of controlled human emotion, exploring every facet of the personality in relentless detail. He wrote: "I had the possibility of corresponding with the world around me in a language that is literally spoken from soul to soul."

These two screenplays, liberally illustrated with production stills featuring actors, including his favourite actress, ex wife, Liv Ullman, are classics of the screen. They will be sought after by film students, and lovers of his films, New interest in Bergman is being generated by the recent release of Faithless, Liv Ullman's 2001 masterpiece, with a screenplay by Bergman.

Born in Sweden in 1918, Ingmar Bergman is still contributing to his canon of work.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Sweden in 1918, Ingmar Bergman is one the great names in post-war cinema. During the 1960s and 1970s he rose to international prominence with such films as Through A Glass Darkly, The Communicants and The Silence, the scripts for which are available in A Film Trilogy (0-7145-0240-5) published by Marion Boyars in 1989.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Swedish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0670158666
• ISBN 13: 9780670158669
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191