Mai Zetterling

Known for ActingBorn 1925-05-24Died 1994-03-17Västerås, 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.Read more

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Lianbron

Lasse-Maja

Calling the Shots

The Bay of St. Michel

Playing on the Rainbow

Ett dockhem

The Moon Is a Green Cheese

Prince Gustaf

Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress

Dance Little Lady

Seven Waves Away

Danger Man

Morfars resa

Sunday Pursuit

Visions of Eight

The Witches

Interpol Calling

Hidden Agenda

Iris and the Lieutenant

The Third Man

One Pair of Eyes

Chillers

Jet Storm

Torment

Love at First Sight

Tall Headlines

Piccadilly Third Stop

Knock on Wood

Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer

Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling

The Hitchhiker

Doctor Glas

Desperate Moment

The War Game

The Man Who Finally Died

The Truth About Women

Portrait from Life

Offbeat

Mai Zetterling's Stockholm

Quartet

Faces in the Dark

The Girls

Music in Darkness

The Bad Lord Byron

Armchair Theatre

Loving Couples

The Ringer

Hell Is Sold Out