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A Little Night Music is a 1977 musical film based on Sondheim's stage adaptation of Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg and Len Cariou as lovers and spouses in a comedy of errors in Austria.
Summaries. Austria, circa 1900: the actress Desiree Armfeldt becomes entangled with multiple intersecting love affairs, which all converge for an evening at the Viennese country estate of her mother, a former courtesan.
A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13, K. 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
- Hugh Wheeler
- 1974
A Little Night Music. An actress (Elizabeth Taylor), her married ex-lover (Len Cariou), her current lover's wife (Diana Rigg) and other guests gather at a circa-1900 estate.
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- Harold Prince
- PG
- Elizabeth Taylor
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She gets her mother to invite the EGermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte appear, too, things begin to get farcical (Send in the Clowns), and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united.
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Overview. A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles.
