Media gallery for
The Passion of Anna

Andreas Winkelman (Max von Sydow).

Bibi Andersson about Eva Vergérus: ’I think she will choose to become a teacher for hearing-impaired, because deaf people live in even deeper isolation. I think she’ll come to feel an enormous sense of relief and blessed.’

Elis Vergérus: ’I don’t imagine that I reach into the soul with this photography. I can only register an interplay of forces, large and small. You look at this picture and imagine things. All is nonsense All play, all poetry. You can’t read another person being with any claim of certainty. Not even pain gives a reaction.’

The poor loner Andreas Winkelman’s (Max von Sydow) isolation is disturbed when another islander, Anna Fromm (Liv Ullmann), asks to use his telephone.

Eva Vergérus (Bibi Andersson), a woman without self esteem.

Anna Fromm (Liv Ullmann), starved for truth.

Andreas Winkelman: ’Can you be sick from humiliation? Or is it an disease we’re all infected by and have to live with? We talk so much about freedom, Anna. Isn’t freedom a terrible poison for the humiliated? Or is the word freedom only a drug the humiliated use in order to endure?’

In the book Images, Bergman writes about his and Nykvist’s first "true" color film: ’Our amibtion was to make a black-and-white film in color, with certain hues emphasized in strictly defined color scale. It turned out to be difficult. The color negative exposed slowly and demanded a totally different lightning than it would today. The poor result of our efforts confused us, and regretfully, we argued often.’

Handwritten script. Dated Fårö 11 August, 1968.

Bergman's shooting script.

First page in the shooting script.

Last page in the shooting script.

Bergman's script titled "ANNANDREAS" became the basis for both A Passion and The Lie. Dated Fårö 10 May 1968.

Swedish film poster. 

Page from Bergman's shooting script.

Workbook no 24 includes script notes for The Passion of Anna. Dated 1967 – 30 September, 1968.