Mai Zetterling
Acting
1925-05-24 · Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
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.
Filmography
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2022 · Movie
Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling
2015 · Movie
Meeting with Mai
1996 · Movie
Minns ni?
1993 · Movie
Morfars resa
1993 · Movie
Love at First Sight
1992 · Series
Sellers' Best
1992 · Movie
Sunday Pursuit
1990 · Movie
Hidden Agenda
1990 · Movie
The Witches
1990 · Movie
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990 · Movie
Chillers
1990 · Series
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
1989 · Movie
Calling the Shots
1988 · Movie
Concrete Grandma
1986 · Movie
Amorosa
1986 · Movie
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Series
Scrubbers
1982 · Movie
Love
1982 · Movie
Of Seals and Men
1981 · Movie
Stulet nyår
1978 · Movie
Svenska noveller
1978 · Series
Mai Zetterling's Stockholm
1978 · Movie
My Heart Is Red
1977 · Movie
The Moon Is a Green Cheese
1977 · Movie
We Have Many Names
1976 · Movie
Visions of Eight
1973 · Movie
Vincent the Dutchman
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The Girls
1968 · Movie
Doctor Glas
1968 · Movie
One Pair of Eyes
1967 · Series
Night Games
1966 · Movie
Lianbron
1965 · Movie
Loving Couples
1964 · Movie
The Man Who Finally Died
1963 · Movie
The War Game
1963 · Movie
The Bay of St. Michel
1963 · Movie
The Main Attraction
1962 · Movie
Only Two Can Play
1962 · Movie
Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
1961 · Movie
Offbeat
1961 · Movie
Faces in the Dark
1960 · Movie
Danger Man
1960 · Series
Piccadilly Third Stop
1960 · Movie
The Third Man
1959 · Series
Jet Storm
1959 · Movie
Interpol Calling
1959 · Series
The Traitor
1959 · Movie
Playing on the Rainbow
1958 · Movie
The Master Builder
1958 · Movie
The Truth About Women
1957 · Movie
Seven Waves Away
1957 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Ett dockhem
1956 · Movie
A Prize of Gold
1955 · Movie
Dance Little Lady
1954 · Movie
Knock on Wood
1954 · Movie
Desperate Moment
1953 · Movie
The Ringer
1952 · Movie
Tall Headlines
1952 · Movie
Hell Is Sold Out
1951 · Movie
Blackmailed
1951 · Movie
The Romantic Age
1949 · Movie
The Lost People
1949 · Movie
The Bad Lord Byron
1949 · Movie
Portrait from Life
1948 · Movie
Studio One
1948 · Series
Quartet
1948 · Movie
Life Starts Now
1948 · Movie
Music in Darkness
1948 · Movie
Frieda
1947 · Movie
Sunshine Follows Rain
1946 · Movie
Iris and the Lieutenant
1946 · Movie
Prince Gustaf
1944 · Movie
Torment
1944 · Movie
Jag dräpte
1943 · Movie
Lasse-Maja
1941 · Movie
The Polite Invasion
Movie