Mijenjanje

The story begins with her early childhood – she was born in 1938 in Tokyo, spent the first war years in the USA, and then returned to Trondheim. Her early upbringing and modest Norwegian childhood shape her character – romantic, but full of inner conflicts.

Studying acting in London and her first stage in Oslo set her on the path to a film career. She enters the world of film alongside Ingmar Bergman, which results in a role in “Persona” from 1965 and multiple film successes such as “The Emigrants”. It is this collaboration with Bergman that becomes crucial – both professionally and personally: she is an actress, the mother of their daughter Linn, and a partner in a romantic and creative relationship.

Through recollection, Ullmann alternates retrospectives – memories from childhood and adolescence – with images of her acting life and her relationship with motherhood. She confronts the guilt of being absent for the sake of her career, the pressure of being exposed in public, and the intimate struggles within and after marriage. The main themes are the change of identity, the hybridity between the private and the public, and the internal transformations imposed by career and love relationships.

The structure of the book is fragmented – behind the random anecdotes and temporal discontinuities lies a layered reflection on change. This narrative form reflects exactly what Ullmann wants to show: life is a series of changes that cannot be neatly told in chronology.