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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Filmography (Movies)
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
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