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Smiles of a Summer Night is a suédois film of genre Drama directed by Ingmar Bergman released in USA on 23 december 1957 with Ulla Jacobsson
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Sommarnattens leende
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Add to a movie listSmiles of a Summer Night (Swedish: Sommarnattens leende) is a 1955 Swedish comedy film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was the first of Bergman's films to bring the director international success, due to its exposure at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005 TIME magazine ranked it one of the 100 greatest films since 1923.
The film's plot—which involves switching partners on a summer night—has been adapted many times, most notably as the theatrical musical, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, which opened on Broadway in 1973, and as Woody Allen's film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).
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The film takes place in Sweden around the turn of the twentieth century. Fredrik Egerman is a middle-aged lawyer married to a 19-year-old beauty, Anne. Their two-year marriage is still unconsummated, due to Anne's reluctance. Fredrik has a son, Henrik, from his marriage to his late first wife. Henrik is in his early twenties and is studying to be a minister but is currently tormented by his love for his step-mother, who secretly loves him in return. Henrik is distracting himself from his urges by attempting an inconclusive affair with Fredrik's lusty young servant, Petra.Actors
Ulla Jacobsson
(Anne Egerman)
Eva Dahlbeck
(Desirée Armfeldt)
Harriet Andersson
(Petra)
Björn Bjelfvenstam
(Henrik Egerman)
Jarl Kulle
(Count Carl Magnus Malcolm)
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