
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling ( May 24, 1925 – March 17, 1994) was a Swedish actress and film director.
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling ( May 24, 1925 – March 17, 1994) was a Swedish actress and film director.
She began directing in the early 1960s, starting with political documentaries and a short film called The War Game (1962), which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Silver Lion at Venice. Her first feature film Älskande par (1964, "Loving Couples"), based on the novels of Agnes von Krusenstjerna, was banned at the Cannes Film Festival for its sexual explicitness and nudity. Kenneth Tynan of The Observer later called it "one of the most ambitious debuts since Citizen Kane." It was not the only film she made that would stir up controversy for its frank sexuality (early pioneer on voyeurism).
When critics reviewing her debut feature said that "Mai Zetterling directs like a man," she began to explore feminist themes more explicitly in her work. The Girls, which had an all-star Swedish cast including Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson, discussed women's liberation (or lack thereof) in a society controlled by men, as the protagonists compare their lives to characters in the play Lysistrata, and find that things have not progressed very much for women since ancient times.
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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/02/2022

Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling
Character:Self (archival footage)
Release Date:22/05/2015

Meeting with Mai
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1996

Minns ni?
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:24/10/1993

Morfars resa
Character:Elin Fromm
Release Date:29/01/1993

Sellers' Best
Character:Self
Release Date:01/02/1992

Hidden Agenda
Character:Moa
Release Date:21/11/1990

The Witches
Character:Helga Eveshim
Release Date:25/05/1990

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Character:Self
Release Date:01/05/1990

Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1989

Calling the Shots
Character:Self
Release Date:08/09/1988

Stulet nyår
Character:Gerda
Release Date:27/02/1978

Mai Zetterling's Stockholm
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1978

My Heart Is Red
Character:Nietzsche
Release Date:23/03/1977

We Have Many Names
Character:Lena
Release Date:19/03/1976

Visions of Eight
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/10/1973

Lianbron
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1965

The Man Who Finally Died
Character:Lisa von Deutsch
Release Date:01/12/1963

The Bay of St. Michel
Character:
Release Date:01/03/1963

The Main Attraction
Character:Gina
Release Date:01/11/1962

Only Two Can Play
Character:Liz
Release Date:19/01/1962

Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
Character:
Release Date:03/01/1961

Offbeat
Character:Ruth Lombard
Release Date:01/01/1961

Faces in the Dark
Character:Christiane Hammond
Release Date:22/11/1960

Piccadilly Third Stop
Character:Christine Preedy
Release Date:05/09/1960

Jet Storm
Character:Carol Tilley
Release Date:16/09/1959

The Traitor
Character:Frau Caypor
Release Date:07/08/1959

Playing on the Rainbow
Character:
Release Date:25/08/1958

The Master Builder
Character:Hilda Wangel
Release Date:23/02/1958

The Truth About Women
Character:Julie Eaton
Release Date:01/10/1957

Seven Waves Away
Character:Nurse Julie White
Release Date:12/03/1957

Ett dockhem
Character:Gurli Pall
Release Date:01/01/1956

A Prize of Gold
Character:Maria
Release Date:14/10/1955

Dance Little Lady
Character:Nina Gordon
Release Date:13/07/1954

Knock on Wood
Character:Ilse Nordstrom
Release Date:06/04/1954

Desperate Moment
Character:Anna DeBurg
Release Date:17/03/1953

The Ringer
Character:Lisa
Release Date:24/11/1952

Tall Headlines
Character:Doris Rickardson
Release Date:15/04/1952

Hell Is Sold Out
Character:Valerie Martin
Release Date:01/06/1951

Blackmailed
Character:Mrs. Carol Edwards
Release Date:30/01/1951

The Romantic Age
Character:Arlette Tessereau
Release Date:29/11/1949

The Lost People
Character:Lily
Release Date:22/08/1949

The Bad Lord Byron
Character:Teresa Guiccioli
Release Date:18/04/1949

Portrait from Life
Character:Lidia
Release Date:01/12/1948

Quartet
Character:Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
Release Date:26/10/1948

Life Starts Now
Character:Vera Ullman
Release Date:16/08/1948

Music in Darkness
Character:Ingrid Olofsson
Release Date:17/01/1948

Frieda
Character:Frieda
Release Date:19/06/1947

Sunshine Follows Rain
Character:Marit Germundsdotter
Release Date:26/12/1946

Iris and the Lieutenant
Character:Iris Mattson
Release Date:16/12/1946

Prince Gustaf
Character:Anna Maria Wastenius
Release Date:29/11/1944

Torment
Character:Bertha Olsson
Release Date:02/10/1944

Jag dräpte
Character:Miss Peters
Release Date:26/10/1943

Lasse-Maja
Character:Fanny
Release Date:28/11/1941