A Little Night Music movie storyline. 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 (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.
A Little Night Music is a 1977 American–West German–Austrian film adaptation of the musical A Little Night Music starring Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, and Lesley-Anne Down. It also features Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, and Laurence Guittard who reprised their Broadway roles. The film was directed by Harold Prince, his second and final feature film as director.
A Little Night Music (1977)
Directed by: Harold Prince
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold, Laurence Guittard, Lesley Dunlop, Chloe Franks, Heinz Marecek, Rudolph Schrympf
Screenplay by: Hugh Wheeler
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Arthur Ibbetson
Film Editing by: John Jympson
Costume Design by: Florence Klotz
Set Decoration by: Hans Ziegelwagner
Art Direction by: Hertha Hareiter
Music by: Stephen Sondheim, Jonathan Tunick
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: New World Pictures
Release Date: September 30, 1977 (United States)
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