Mai Zetterling
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2022 · Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling as Self (archival footage)
- 1996 · Meeting with Mai as
- 1993 · Minns ni? as (archive footage)
- 1993 · Morfars resa as Elin Fromm
- 1992 · Sellers' Best as Self
- 1990 · Hidden Agenda as Moa
- 1990 · The Witches as Helga Eveshim
- 1990 · The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as Self
- 1989 · Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress as Self
- 1988 · Calling the Shots as Self
- 1978 · Stulet nyår as Gerda
- 1978 · Svenska noveller as Gerda
- 1978 · Stockholm as
- 1977 · My Heart Is Red as Nietzsche
- 1976 · We Have Many Names as Lena
- 1973 · Visions of Eight as Narrator
- 1965 · Lianbron as
- 1963 · The Man Who Finally Died as Lisa von Deutsch
- 1963 · The Bay of St. Michel as
- 1962 · The Main Attraction as Gina
- 1962 · Only Two Can Play as Liz
- 1961 · Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies as
- 1961 · Offbeat as Ruth Lombard
- 1960 · Faces in the Dark as Christiane Hammond
- 1960 · Piccadilly Third Stop as Christine Preedy
- 1959 · The Third Man as
- 1959 · Jet Storm as Carol Tilley
- 1959 · Interpol Calling as Carol
- 1959 · The Traitor as Frau Caypor
- 1958 · Playing on the Rainbow as
- 1958 · The Master Builder as Hilda Wangel
- 1957 · The Truth About Women as Julie Eaton
- 1957 · Abandon Ship as Nurse Julie White
- 1956 · Ett dockhem as Gurli Pall
- 1955 · A Prize of Gold as Maria
- 1954 · Dance Little Lady as Nina Gordon
- 1954 · Knock on Wood as Ilse Nordstrom
- 1953 · Desperate Moment as Anna DeBurg
- 1952 · The Ringer as Lisa
- 1952 · Tall Headlines as Doris Rickardson
- 1951 · Hell Is Sold Out as Valerie Martin
- 1951 · Blackmailed as Mrs. Carol Edwards
- 1949 · Naughty Arlette as Arlette Tessereau
- 1949 · The Lost People as Lily
- 1949 · The Bad Lord Byron as Teresa Guiccioli
- 1948 · Portrait from Life as Lidia
- 1948 · Studio One as Gabrielle
- 1948 · Quartet as Jeanne
- 1948 · Nu börjar livet as Vera Ullman
- 1948 · Music in Darkness as Ingrid Olofsson
- 1947 · Frieda as Frieda
- 1946 · Sunshine Follows Rain as Marit Germundsdotter
- 1946 · Iris and the Lieutenant as Iris Mattson
- 1944 · Prince Gustaf as Anna Maria Wastenius
- 1944 · Torment as Bertha Olsson
- 1943 · Jag dräpte as Miss Peters
- 1941 · Lasse-Maja as Fanny