Smiles of a Summer Night
| Smiles of a Summer Night | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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Running time | 108 min |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
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. 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).