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This romantic comedy, written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, was inspired in part by Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and later became the basis for both the musical 'A Little Night Music' and Woody Allen's 'A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'.
The principal events take place at a turn-of-the-century manor house where Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), an actress, and her aging mother are giving a party. Two of the invited guests, Count Malcolm (Jarl Kulle) and Fredrik Egerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand), a middle-aged lawyer, are romantically involved with Desiree, a cause for murderous jealousy between the two. Meanwhile, Egerman's youthful wife, Anne (Ulla Jacobsson), who has thus far repulsed all sexual advances on her husband's part, is showing a considerable interest in her stepson (Bjorn Bjelvenstam).
During the course of the evening, various alliances are formed and dissolved, partners are switched, and all the guests take part in the resulting erotic escapades and intrigue but in the end, everyone finds their true love. Bergman's spicy, sophisticated movie received rave reviews and earned him widespread critical acclaim
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