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This explosive war drama stars Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris as resistance fighters who thwart the Nazis' endeavor to create the atomic bomb.

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* A big city student arrives at a farm and falls in love with the farmer's 17-year-old daughter. They have to deal with disapproving parents, as well as the local priest, who thinks the youth of today is rotten. This 1951 film unknowingly helped establish the reputation of Sweden as the land of sin, just because of a short, innocent skinny dip, fanning the image of Sweden as a sexually permissive country, and eventually spawning a wave of “Swedish Sin” films exported all over the world. The film remains to this day one of Sweden’s biggest international box office successes of all time. It was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and won the award for Best Music at the Cannes Film Festival. Newly restored in 4K by the Swedish Film Institute. Bonus Features: 1. Poster Gallery 2. "Arne Mattsson – A Career" – video essay by Rickard Gramfors (Klubb Super 8) and Jan Lumholdt (film critic and film historian) 3. Audio Commentary with Anna-Maria and Roger Blomgren (authors of the new biography Arne Mattsson - Film till varje pris) 4. "She Danced One Summer - and the World Never Recovered" - 20 page booklet Top Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews One Summer of Happiness [Blu-ray] One Summer of Happiness

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After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries). In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women of different classes attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men’s hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock-full of flirtatious propositions and sharp witticisms delivered by such Swedish screen legends as Gunnar Björnstrand (The Seventh Seal, Winter Light) and Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers), Smiles of a Summer Night is one of cinema’s great erotic comedies.