Electra2.0033_Bergman

Electra2.0033_Bergman

OGCMA s.v. "Electra"
IMDB article
Aeschylus Choeph., 84-510
Sophocles Electra, passim
Euripides Electra, passim
Apollodorus Libr. Ep.2.169

Ingmar Bergman, director, Persona, 1966, motion picture.

Liv Ulman portrays Elisabeth Vogler, a stage actress who suffers suddenly emotional breakdown during a performance of Sophocles' Electra, becoming mute, and then undergoes recovery and self realization. In the process, Vogler's personality merges with the personality of her care-giver, Alma portrayed by Bibi Andersson. Bergman merges the two actresses at one point in an especially memorable montage, two faces become one. This very filmic film is the topic of much scholarly analysis.

Note that this film will be shown at BYU's International Cinema during the week of 14-17 November 2018.

"Probably the masterpiece by Ingmar Bergman, written during his recovery in hospital." (De Martino, p. 159-60)

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.