Persona is a 1966 black and white Swedish film written and directed by
Ingmar Bergman and starring
Bibi Andersson and
Liv Ullmann.
Persona’s story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) and her patient, a well-known stage actress named Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), who has suddenly ceased to speak. The Latin word
persona originally referred to the masks worn by actors on stage.