Smiles Of A Summer Night

Smiles Of A Summer Night (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1955 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Ingmar Bergman

Written By:
Ingmar Bergman

Actors:
Ulla Jacobsson ..... Anne Egerman
Eva Dahlbeck ..... Desiree Armfeldt
Harriet Andersson ..... Petra the Maid
Margit Carlqvist ..... Charlotte (as Margit Carlquist)
Gunnar Björnstrand ..... Fredrik Egerman
Jarl Kulle ..... Carl Magnus
Åke Fridell ..... Frid the Groom
Björn Bjelfvenstam ..... Henrik Egerman (as Björn Bjelvenstam)
Naima Wifstrand ..... Mrs. Armfeldt
Jullan Kindahl ..... Beata, cook
Gull Natorp ..... Malla
Birgitta Valberg ..... Actress
Bibi Andersson ..... Actress

Synopsis:

Bergman's comic masterpiece opens with middle-aged lawyer Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand) again failing to consummate his marriage with the much younger Anne (Ulla Jacobsson). While visiting a former lover, actress Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), he crosses swords with her current lover, Count Malcolm (Jarl Kulle), after both men learn that Frederik is the father of her illegitimate child. At Desiree's behest, her mother invites Egerman, the Count, and their wives along with Egerman's grown son, Henrik (Björn Bjelvenstam) to her manor house for the weekend. Before their departure, divinity student Henrik wards off the eager advances of the housemaid by reading from the Bible aloud, but it seems clear that he and Anne are quite taken with one another. After arriving at the Ryarp estate the guests are served a dinner spiked with a love potion which provokes swift reactions. The bewildered Frederik becomes aware of the increasingly intense bond between Henrik and Anne, and the Countess (Margit Carlquist) makes a public bet with her husband that she can seduce Frederik. Shocked by the dinner-table conversation, the strait-laced Henrik retires to his room to commit suicide. In the course of his bumbling attempt, he has the good fortune to learn why so many prefer sex to death .

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.