Mai Zetterling
Acting
Born 1925-05-24
Died 1994-03-17
Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
79 credits
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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
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Acting
44 credits
Studio One
Film '72
Danger Man
Interpol Calling
The Witches
Jag dräpte
Svenska noveller
Seven Waves Away
Knock on Wood
Hidden Agenda
The Man Who Finally Died
Armchair Theatre
Only Two Can Play
Torment
Quartet
Music in Darkness
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Iris and the Lieutenant
Frieda
The Ringer
Sunshine Follows Rain
The Lost People
Jet Storm
Minns ni?
Stulet nyår
Prince Gustaf
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
Visions of Eight
Offbeat
The Truth About Women
Calling the Shots
Portrait from Life
A Prize of Gold
Piccadilly Third Stop
The Main Attraction
Hell Is Sold Out
Dance Little Lady
We Have Many Names
The Romantic Age
Tall Headlines
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Life Starts Now
Desperate Moment
Ett dockhem
Directing
14 credits
The Hitchhiker
Chillers
Love at First Sight
Doctor Glas
Scrubbers
The Girls
Loving Couples
Love
Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
Night Games
Concrete Grandma
Amorosa
Visions of Eight
We Have Many Names
Writing
8 credits
Other credits
5 credits
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