Smiles of a Summer Night
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This article is about the Ingmar Bergman film. For the Desperate Housewives episode, see Smiles of a Summer Night (Desperate Housewives).
Smiles of a Summer Night (Swedish: Sommarnattens leende) is a 1955 Swedish comedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was shown at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[1] In 2005, Time magazine ranked it as one of the 100 greatest films since 1923.[2]
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Smiles of a Summer Night | |
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Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
Written by | Ingmar Bergman |
Produced by | Allan Ekelund |
Starring | Ulla Jacobsson Eva Dahlbeck Harriet Andersson Margit Carlqvist Gunnar Björnstrand Jarl Kulle |
Cinematography | Gunnar Fischer |
Edited by | Oscar Rosander |
Music by | Erik Nordgren |
Distributed by | Svensk Filmindustri |
Release date | 26 December 1955 |
Running time | 108 min |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
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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).