Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

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Original title	Sommarnattens leende : En romantisk komedi
Swedish release title	Sommarnattens leende
International title	Smiles of a Summer Night
Distribution title	Sommernattens smil (Danmark) Sommernattens smil (Norge) Kesäyön hymyilyä (Finland) Sourires d'une nuit d'été (Frankrike) Smiles of a Summer Night (Storbritannien) Smiles of a Summer Night (USA) Das Lächeln einer Sommernacht (Västtyskland) Das Lächeln einer Sommernacht (Östtyskland) Sorrisi di una notte d'estate (Italien) Sonrisas de una noche de verano (Spanien) Uśmiech nocy (Polen) Úsměvy letní noci (Tjeckoslovakien) Egy nyáréjszaka mosolya (Ungern) Glimlag van 'n somersnag (Sydafrika) Усмивки от една лятна нощ (Bulgarien) Suveöö naeratused (Estland) Osmijesi ljetne noći (Kroatien) חיוכי ליל קיץ (Israel) Vasaras nakts smaidi (Lettland) Vasaros nakties šypsenos (Litauen) Glimlach van een zomernacht (Nederländerna) Sorrisos de uma noite de amor (Brasilien) Sorrisos de uma noite de verão (Portugal) Surâsul unei nopţi de vară (Rumänien) Улыбки летней ночи (Ryssland) Bir yaz gecesi gülümsemeleri (Turkiet) Усмішки літньої ночі (Ukraina)
Title for Swedish Video release	Sommarnattens leende

Director	Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay	Ingmar Bergman
Production Manager	Allan Ekelund
Director of Photography	Gunnar Fischer
Music	Erik Nordgren (originalmusik)
Art Director	P.A. Lundgren
Film Editor	Oscar Rosander
Production Mixer	Per-Olof Pettersson (as P.O. Pettersson)
Assistant Director	Lennart Olsson
Script Supervisor	Katinka Faragó (as Katherina Faragó)
Unit Manager	Gustav Roger Ove Kant
First Assistant Cameraman	Åke Nilsson
Still Photographer	Louis Huch (ateljéfoto)
Musical Arrangement	Erik Nordgren
Orchestra Leader	Eskil Eckert-Lundin
Costume Designer	Max Goldstein (as Mago)
Make-up / Hair	Manne Lundh (as Carl M. Lundh)
Boom Operator	Lennart Wallin

Gunnar Björnstrand	Fredrik Egerman, advokat
Ulla Jacobsson	Anne, Fredrik Egermans hustru
Björn Bjelfvenstam	Henrik Egerman, teol stud, Fredriks son
Eva Dahlbeck	Desirée Armfeldt, skådespelerska
Naima Wifstrand	Desirées mor
Jarl Kulle	Carl Magnus Malcolm, greve, ryttmästare
Margit Carlqvist	Charlotte, Carl Magnus hustru
Åke Fridell	Frid, kusk hos gamla fru Armfeldt
Harriet Andersson	Petra, piga hos Egermans
Jullan Kindahl	Beata, kokerska hos Egermans
Gull Natorp	Malla, Desirées påkläderska
Gunnar Nielsen	Niklas, Malcolms kalfaktor
Bibi Andersson	skådespelerska
Birgitta Valberg	skådespelerska
Gösta Prüzelius	betjänt
Svea Holst	påkläderska
Mona Malm	kammarjungfru
Lena Söderblom	kammarjungfru
Josef Norman	middagsgäst hos gamla fru Armfeldt
Yngve Nordwall	Ferdinand
Hans Strååt	Adolf Almgren, fotograf
Lisa Lundholm	fru Almgren
Börje Mellvig	notarie
David Erikson	tobakshandlare
Arne Lindblad	skådespelare
Einar Söderbäck	ridåhalare
Sten Gester	betjänt
Mille Schmidt	betjänt
John Melin	hovmästare hos gamla fru Armfeldt
Ulf Johanson	biträde på advokatkontoret
Anders Wulff	Fredrik, Desirées lille son
Viveca Heister	ej identifierad roll
Birgitta Hellerstedt	ej identifierade roll

Production Company	AB Svensk Filmindustri
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	AB Svensk Filmindustri	1955
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1994
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2017
Distributor in Sweden (Video)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1998
Distributor in Sweden (buy video)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1998
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	SF Home Entertainment	2003
Laboratory	AB Svensk Filmindustris filmlaboratorium

In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men's hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way.

Censorship number	87386
Date	1955-12-14
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2975 meters
Notes	Aktlängder: 480, 490, 500, 475, 515, 515.

Aspect ratio	1.37:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Optical mono
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2975 meter
Length in minutes	109 min
Reels	6 reels
Dialogue	Swedish

			(kompletteringar två dagar i november 1955)	1955-06-28	1955-08-29
Filmstaden	Råsunda	Sweden	(ateljé)
Jordberga slott	Anderslöv	Sweden
	Ystad	Sweden
Övedsklosters slott	Sjöbo	Sweden

Release in Sweden	1955-12-26	Röda Kvarn	Stockholm	Sweden	109 min
First showing	1955-12-26	Röda Kvarn	Stockholm	Sweden	109 min
Other showing	1959		Warsaw	Poland
TV showing	1981-12-24	TV1		Sweden	104 min
	1988-12-26	TV2		Sweden	104 min
	1997-10-26	SVT1		Sweden	104 min
Video release	1998-04			Sweden	104 min
TV showing	2001-07-23	SVT1		Sweden	104 min
	2003-07-14	SVT2		Sweden	104 min
DVD release	2003-11-26			Sweden
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2004-11-17
TV showing	2006-04-17	SVT1		Sweden	104 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2006-10
TV showing	2007-08-06	SVT1		Sweden	104 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2007-10-06
Festival showing	2008-01-25	Capitol	Gothenburg	Sweden	109 min	(Göteborg Film Festival. Ingmar Bergman-retrospektiv)
TV showing	2008-05-06	SVT1		Sweden	104 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2012-01-25
TV showing	2012-07-16	SVT1		Sweden
FIAF showing	2018-01-05	British Film Institute	London	United Kingdom
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-01-24	Art-kino	Rijeka	Croatia
	2018-01-24	Art-kino	Rijeka	Croatia
Other showing	2018-02-01	Janus Films	New York	USA
FIAF showing	2018-02-14	Cinema Orion	Helsinki	Finland
	2018-04-04	La Cinemathèque québécoise	Montreal	Canada
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-04-13	Beijing Film Festival	Beijing	China
Cinematheque screening	2018-04-25	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
FIAF showing	2018-05-07	Jerusalem Cinematheque	Jerusalem	Israel
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-05-08	Biograf Studio	Oulu	Finland
	2018-06-19	Verdensteatret, Tromsø		Norway
	2018-07-06	Babylon	Berlin	Germany
	2018-07-06	Uránia National Film Theater	Budapest	Hungary
TV showing	2018-07-12	SVT2		Sweden
	2018-07-14	SVT2		Sweden
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-07-15	Turku Cinema Club	Turku	Finland
TV showing	2018-07-15	SVT2		Sweden
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-08-23	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival	Taipei	Taiwan
	2018-09-02	Filmhaus Nürnberg - kommkino	Nuremberg	Germany
	2018-09-13	Films by the sea	Vlissingen	The Netherlands
	2018-10-05	IFF Kinenova, Macedonian Cinematheque	Skopje	North Macedonia
	2018-11-25	International Film Festival of Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	India
	2018-12-01	International Film Festival of Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	India
Cinematheque screening	2020-10-06	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
TV showing	2022-03-07	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-03-29	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-05-09	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-05-24	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-05-31	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-07-04	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-07-10	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-07-23	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-08-31	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-09-11	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-12-02	SF Kanalen		Sweden	108 min
	2022-12-12	SF Kanalen		Sweden	108 min
	2023-03-06	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-03-28	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-08	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-23	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-30	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-07-03	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-07-09	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-07-22	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-09-10	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-12-01	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-12-11	SF Kanalen		Sweden

Original title	Fantasistycke, piano, op. 12. Nr 2: Aufschwung
Composer	Robert Schumann	(1837)

Original title	Impromptu, piano, nr 4, op. 66, ciss-moll
Composer	Frédéric Chopin	(1834)

Original title	Liebestraum, piano, nr 3, op. 62
Composer	Franz Liszt	(1850)

Original title	Bort med sorg och bitterhet
Composer	Erik Nordgren	(1955)
Lyrics	Ingmar Bergman	(1955)

Original title	Là ci darem la mano. Ur Don Giovanni
Composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	(1787)
Lyrics	Herbert Sandberg	(svensk text 19--?)
	Lorenzo Da Ponte	(1787)
	Carl Gustaf Nordforss	(svensk text 1813)
	Erik Lindegren	(svensk text 1961)
	Wilhelm Bauck	(svensk text 1856)

Original title	I himmelen, i himmelen
Lyrics	Laurentius Laurinus d.ä.	(1622)

Original title	Berättelse och sång om Löjtnant Sparre och Elvira Madigan, den sköna konstberiderskan, hvilka båda för egen hand och af kärlek sköto ihjäl sig i Tåsinge, Danmark
Lyrics	Johan Lindström Saxon	(1889)

Original title	Freut euch des Lebens
Composer	Hans Georg Nägeli	(1795)
Lyrics	Johann Martin Usteri	(1793)

Bodil (Denmark)	Copenhagen	1957			(bästa europeiska film)
Prize	Stockholm	1956			(svD:s plakett)
Festival Award	Cannes	1956			(pris för poetisk humor)
Folket i Bild Magazine Award	Stockholm	1955			(bästa film)
	Stockholm	1955		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa regi)
	Stockholm	1955		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa manus)
	Stockholm	1955		Eva Dahlbeck	(bästa kvinnliga huvudroll)
	Stockholm	1955		Harriet Andersson	(bästa kvinnliga biroll)

Minns ni? (1993)

Citation included from

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

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Size	About 70 x 100 cm
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Size	About 70 x 100 cm
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Size	About 60 x 80 cm
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Size	About 60 x 80 cm
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Type	Kostymskiss
Object title	Petra
Technique	gouache
Size	23 x 33

Type	Kostymskiss
Object title	Anne
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Size	23,2 x 32

Type	Kostymskiss
Object title	Charlotte
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Type	Kostymskiss
Object title	Desirée
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Type	Kostymskiss
Object title	Anne
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Object title	Sommarnattens leende
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Type	Costume
Object title	Sommarnattens leende
Extent	Kavaj i pepitarutigt med grön sammetskrage

Type	Press Cuttings

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	En romantisk komedi på film av Ingmar Bergman.
Extent	184 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	"final English title list"
Extent	23 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	"Liste des deutschen Dialogen"
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Script type	Dialoglista
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Script type	Peripheral material
Script title	6/55. Lennart Olsson.
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Script type	Peripheral material

Script type	Dialoglista
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Script type	Dialoglista
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Behind the scenes prints	SET
Slides	1
Album	Yes

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Type	Program/Reklamtryck
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