Mai Zetterling
Acting
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.
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Self (archive footage)
Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling
Self (archival footage)
Meeting with Mai
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
Morfars resa
Elin Fromm
Sellers' Best
Self
Hidden Agenda
Moa
The Witches
Helga Eveshim
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Self
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
Self
Calling the Shots
Self
Stulet nyår
Gerda
Mai Zetterling's Stockholm
My Heart Is Red
Nietzsche
We Have Many Names
Lena
Visions of Eight
Narrator
Lianbron
The Man Who Finally Died
Lisa von Deutsch
The Bay of St. Michel
The Main Attraction
Gina
Only Two Can Play
Liz
Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
Offbeat
Ruth Lombard
Faces in the Dark
Christiane Hammond
Piccadilly Third Stop
Christine Preedy
Jet Storm
Carol Tilley
The Traitor
Frau Caypor
Playing on the Rainbow
The Master Builder
Hilda Wangel
The Truth About Women
Julie Eaton
Seven Waves Away
Nurse Julie White
Ett dockhem
Gurli Pall
A Prize of Gold
Maria
Dance Little Lady
Nina Gordon
Knock on Wood
Ilse Nordstrom
Desperate Moment
Anna DeBurg
The Ringer
Lisa
Tall Headlines
Doris Rickardson
Hell Is Sold Out
Valerie Martin
Blackmailed
Mrs. Carol Edwards
The Romantic Age
Arlette Tessereau
The Lost People
Lily
The Bad Lord Byron
Teresa Guiccioli
Portrait from Life
Lidia
Quartet
Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
Life Starts Now
Vera Ullman
Music in Darkness
Ingrid Olofsson
Frieda
Frieda
Sunshine Follows Rain
Marit Germundsdotter
Iris and the Lieutenant
Iris Mattson
Prince Gustaf
Anna Maria Wastenius
Torment
Bertha Olsson
Jag dräpte
Miss Peters
Lasse-Maja
Fanny