Profile of Mai Zetterling
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Mai Zetterling

Born
1925-05-24
Birthplace
Västerås,
Västmanlands län
Sweden
Born
1925-05-24
Died
1994-03-17
(68 years old)
Birthplace
Västerås, Västmanlands län
Sweden
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 calle......

Profile of Mai Zetterling

Mai Zetterling

Born
1925-05-24
Died
1994-03-17
(68 years old)
Birthplace
Västerås, Västmanlands län
Sweden
Born
1925-05-24
Died
1994-03-17
(68 years old)
Birthplace
Västerås, Västmanlands län
Sweden
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.

79 titles with 98 credits

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Studio One poster

1948

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The Hitchhiker poster

1983

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Danger Man poster

1960

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Film '72 poster

1971

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Chillers poster

1990

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Interpol Calling poster

1959

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The Third Man poster

1959

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The Witches poster

1990

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Love at First Sight poster

1992

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Hidden Agenda poster

1990

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Music in Darkness poster

1948

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One Pair of Eyes poster

1967

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Svenska noveller poster

1978

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Torment poster

1944

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Night Games poster

1966

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Knock on Wood poster

1954

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The Girls poster

1968

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Only Two Can Play poster

1962

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Seven Waves Away poster

1957

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Loving Couples poster

1964

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Quartet poster

1948

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Jet Storm poster

1959

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Armchair Theatre poster

1956

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Scrubbers poster

1982

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Visions of Eight poster

1973

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Frieda poster

1947

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The Man Who Finally Died poster

1963

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Amorosa poster

1986

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Love poster

1982

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Doctor Glas poster

1968

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Offbeat poster

1961

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A Prize of Gold poster

1955

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Piccadilly Third Stop poster

1960

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The War Game poster

1963

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Portrait from Life poster

1948

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Sunshine Follows Rain poster

1946

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The Truth About Women poster

1957

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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer poster

2022

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Iris and the Lieutenant poster

1946

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The Ringer poster

1952

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Faces in the Dark poster

1960

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The Bad Lord Byron poster

1949

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The Romantic Age poster

1949

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The Main Attraction poster

1962

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My Heart Is Red poster

1977

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The Lost People poster

1949

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Blackmailed poster

1951

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Hell Is Sold Out poster

1951

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Dance Little Lady poster

1954

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Life Starts Now poster

1948

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We Have Many Names poster

1976

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Jag dräpte poster

1943

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Desperate Moment poster

1953

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Tall Headlines poster

1952

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Sunday Pursuit poster

1990

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The Moon Is a Green Cheese poster

1977

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Prince Gustaf poster

1944

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Calling the Shots poster

1988

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Morfars resa poster

1993

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Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress poster

1989

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Vincent the Dutchman poster

1972

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The Bay of St. Michel poster

1963

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Lasse-Maja poster

1941

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Playing on the Rainbow poster

1958

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Lianbron poster

1965

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Mai Zetterling's Stockholm poster

1978

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Ett dockhem poster

1956

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Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling poster

2015

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Minns ni? poster

1993

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The Traitor poster

1959

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The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' poster

1990

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Sellers' Best poster

1992

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Concrete Grandma poster

1986

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The Master Builder poster

1958

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Stulet nyår poster

1978

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Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies poster

1961

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Meeting with Mai poster

1996

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Of Seals and Men poster

1981

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The Polite Invasion poster

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