
100 minutes
9/16/1968
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.

Bibi Andersson
as Liz / Lysistrata

Harriet Andersson
as Marianne / Myrrhine

Gunnel Lindblom
as Gunilla / Kalonike

Gunnar Björnstrand
as Hugo

Erland Josephson
as Carl, Mann von Liz

Frank Sundström
as Marianne's lover

Åke Lindström
as Bengt

Stig Engström
as Thommy

Margreth Weivers
as Tourist Manager's Wife

Leif Liljeroth
as Tourist Manager Kiruna

Ulf Palme
as Director

Ingvar Kjellson
as Olle
Signe Enwall
as Choir Member

Bellan Roos
as Choir Member

Chris Wahlström
as Choir Member

Brita Öberg
as Choir Member
Annica Rehnström
as Choir member

Manne Grünberger
as Choir Member
Per Grevér
as TV Reporter

Bertil Norström
as Restaurant Guest
Gunnel Sporr
as Erika
Karin Miller
as Prompter
Monique Ernstdotter
as Young Girl
Gunilla Dahlman
as The Attractive Woman
Eva Högberg
as Sparta (uncredited)

Henrik Schildt
as Choir Member (uncredited)
Monica Andersson
Elsa Hofgren
Margita Nyström
Kai Reiners
Oskar Rangner

Bo Holmström

Kid Severin
Anders Isaksson

Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin
as Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini
as Self (archive footage)
Marita Gidlund