Smiles of a Summer Night

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
Directed byIngmar Bergman
Written byIngmar Bergman
Produced byAllan Ekelund
StarringUlla Jacobsson
Eva Dahlbeck
Harriet Andersson
Margit Carlqvist
Gunnar Björnstrand
Jarl Kulle
CinematographyGunnar Fischer
Edited byOscar Rosander
Music byErik Nordgren
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri
Release date
  • 26 December 1955 (1955-12-26)
Running time
108 min
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

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]

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).

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Smiles of a Summer Night". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  2. ^ "ALL-TIME 100 Movies" list