Mai Zetterling
birthday: 1925-05-24
Place of birth: Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
deathday: 1994-03-17

Mai Zetterling

Biography

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.

The Witches

The Witches

1990 . movie

Ett dockhem

Ett dockhem

1956 . movie

Minns ni?

Minns ni?

1993 . movie

Torment

Torment

1944 . movie

The Traitor

The Traitor

1959 . movie

Frieda

Frieda

1947 . movie

Quartet

Quartet

1948 . movie

Abandon Ship

Abandon Ship

1957 . movie

Offbeat

Offbeat

1961 . movie

Blackmailed

Blackmailed

1951 . movie

Jag dräpte

Jag dräpte

1943 . movie

The Ringer

The Ringer

1952 . movie

Jet Storm

Jet Storm

1959 . movie

Lianbron

Lianbron

1965 . movie

Morfars resa

Morfars resa

1993 . movie

Lasse-Maja

Lasse-Maja

1941 . movie

Stulet nyår

Stulet nyår

1978 . movie

Studio One

Studio One

1948 . tv

The Third Man

The Third Man

1959 . tv