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.
Liz / Lysistrata
Bibi Andersson
Marianne / Myrrhine
Harriet Andersson
Gunilla / Kalonike
Gunnel Lindblom
Hugo
Gunnar Björnstrand
Carl, Mann von Liz
Erland Josephson
Marianne's lover
Frank Sundström
Bengt
Åke Lindström
Thommy
Stig Engström
Tourist Manager's Wife
Margreth Weivers
Tourist Manager Kiruna
Leif Liljeroth
Director
Ulf Palme
Olle
Ingvar Kjellson
Choir Member
Signe Enwall
Choir Member
Bellan Roos
Choir Member
Chris Wahlström
Choir Member
Brita Öberg
Choir Member
Manne Grünberger
TV Reporter
Per Grevér
Restaurant Guest
Bertil Norström
Erika
Gunnel Sporr
Prompter
Karin Miller
Young Girl
Monique Ernstdotter
The Attractive Woman
Gunilla Dahlman
Sparta (uncredited)
Eva Högberg
Choir Member (uncredited)
Henrik Schildt
Monica Andersson
Elsa Hofgren
Margita Nyström
Kai Reiners
Oskar Rangner
Bo Holmström
Kid Severin
Anders Isaksson
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Marita Gidlund