A Little Night Music

"Send in the clowns... send in the crowds... the Tony-Award winning musical is now a lot of movie!"

Sep 30 1977 PG 2h 4m
Comedy, Musical, Romance

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.

Plot

Frederick Egerman (Len Cariou) is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne (Lesley-Anne Down). Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrick goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is thinking of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrick, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus Mittelheim (Laurence Guittard). She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte (Dame Diana Rigg) 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.

Written by

Ingmar Bergman, Hugh Wheeler

Directed by

Harold Prince

Production Countries

Germany, United States of America, Austria

Production Companies

Sascha-Film, S&T-Film Berlin, Elliott Kastner Productions

Languages

English

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total

Scores
# of Votes
979
Average Rating
5.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA