Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, 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.
Elizabeth Taylor
as Desiree Armfeldt
Diana Rigg
as Charlotte Mittelheim
Len Cariou
as Frederick Egerman
Lesley-Anne Down
as Anne Egerman
Hermione Gingold
as Madame Armfeldt
Laurence Guittard
as Carl-Magnus Mittelheim
Christopher Guard
as Erich Egerman
Lesley Dunlop
as Petra
Chloe Franks
as Fredericka Armfeldt
Heinz Marecek
as Kurt
Dagmar Koller
as First Lady
Ruth Brinkman
as Second Lady