Persona and Shame, The Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman 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 was being generated by the release of Faithless, Liv Ullman's 2001 masterpiece, with a screenplay by Bergman.