A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music (1977)

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

A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love her: lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When Desirée's show travels through Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles.

Date of release
1977-09-30
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (17)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
Hal Prince

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: A Little Night Music
  • Filmed in: Austria
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 2. Including: Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

A Little Night Music is a 1977 musical romantic comedy film directed by Harold Prince, his second and final directorial role. The screenplay by Hugh Wheeler is adapted from his libretto for Stephen Sondheim's 1973 musical of the same name, itself based on Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film, Smiles of a Summer Night.

Production

The film largely transposes the music and lyrics of the stage production, though some songs were cut. Sondheim made several notable adaptations for the screen: augmenting the "Night Waltz" theme with lyrics ("Love Takes Time"), adding a verse to "Every Day a Little Death", expanded lyrics for "Weekend in the Country", and entirely rewriting "The Glamorous Life" (a version that has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage…

The setting for the film was moved from Sweden to Austria and was filmed on location. This location shift changed the name of Frederich's son from Henrik to Erich.

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