Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Original title

Sommarnattens leende

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Genre

comedy film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 274 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of couples in early 1900s Sweden spend a summer weekend at a country estate. They play out romantic schemes and change partners over the course of one night.

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What happens

Smiles of a Summer Night (Swedish: Sommarnattens leende) is a 1955 Swedish period comedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was shown at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, Time magazine ranked it as one of the 100 greatest films since 1923. The film's plot—which involves some couples who switch partners on a summer night—has been adapted many times, particularly 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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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