credits of
Mai Zetterling
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
February 25th, 2022 | Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
May 22nd, 2015 | Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling | Self (archival footage) | 6 | |
January 1st, 1996 | Meeting with Mai | TBD | TBD | |
October 24th, 1993 | Minns ni? | (archive footage) | TBD | |
January 29th, 1993 | Morfars resa | Elin Fromm | 7 | |
February 1st, 1992 | Sellers' Best | Self | TBD | |
November 21st, 1990 | Hidden Agenda | Moa | 7 | |
May 25th, 1990 | The Witches | Helga Eveshim | 7 | |
May 1st, 1990 | The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' | Self | TBD | |
December 31st, 1989 | Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress | Self | 7.5 | |
September 8th, 1988 | Calling the Shots | Self | 9 | |
February 27th, 1978 | Stulet nyår | Gerda | TBD | |
January 1st, 1978 | Mai Zetterling's Stockholm | TBD | 6 | |
March 23rd, 1977 | My Heart Is Red | Nietzsche | 4.4 | |
March 19th, 1976 | We Have Many Names | Lena | 5 | |
October 6th, 1973 | Visions of Eight | Narrator | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 1965 | Lianbron | TBD | 10 | |
December 1st, 1963 | The Man Who Finally Died | Lisa von Deutsch | 6.3 | |
March 1st, 1963 | The Bay of St. Michel | TBD | 9 | |
November 1st, 1962 | The Main Attraction | Gina | 4 | |
January 19th, 1962 | Only Two Can Play | Liz | 5.8 | |
January 3rd, 1961 | Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies | TBD | TBD | |
January 1st, 1961 | Offbeat | Ruth Lombard | 6.2 | |
November 22nd, 1960 | Faces in the Dark | Christiane Hammond | 6.1 | |
September 5th, 1960 | Piccadilly Third Stop | Christine Preedy | 6.7 | |
September 16th, 1959 | Jet Storm | Carol Tilley | 7 | |
August 7th, 1959 | The Traitor | Frau Caypor | TBD | |
August 25th, 1958 | Playing on the Rainbow | TBD | 9 | |
February 23rd, 1958 | The Master Builder | Hilda Wangel | TBD | |
October 1st, 1957 | The Truth About Women | Julie Eaton | 6.3 | |
March 12th, 1957 | Seven Waves Away | Nurse Julie White | 7.5 | |
January 1st, 1956 | Ett dockhem | Gurli Pall | 9 | |
October 14th, 1955 | A Prize of Gold | Maria | 5.7 | |
July 13th, 1954 | Dance Little Lady | Nina Gordon | 7.8 | |
April 6th, 1954 | Knock on Wood | Ilse Nordstrom | 6.7 | |
March 17th, 1953 | Desperate Moment | Anna DeBurg | 6.5 | |
November 24th, 1952 | The Ringer | Lisa | 6 | |
April 15th, 1952 | Tall Headlines | Doris Rickardson | 6.8 | |
June 1st, 1951 | Hell Is Sold Out | Valerie Martin | 6 | |
January 30th, 1951 | Blackmailed | Mrs. Carol Edwards | 4.3 | |
November 29th, 1949 | The Romantic Age | Arlette Tessereau | 5.4 | |
August 22nd, 1949 | The Lost People | Lily | 6 | |
April 18th, 1949 | The Bad Lord Byron | Teresa Guiccioli | 6.1 | |
December 1st, 1948 | Portrait from Life | Lidia | 6.3 | |
October 26th, 1948 | Quartet | Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life") | 6.3 | |
August 16th, 1948 | Life Starts Now | Vera Ullman | 3.3 | |
January 17th, 1948 | Music in Darkness | Ingrid Olofsson | 6.2 | |
June 19th, 1947 | Frieda | Frieda | 5.6 | |
December 26th, 1946 | Sunshine Follows Rain | Marit Germundsdotter | 5.7 | |
December 16th, 1946 | Iris and the Lieutenant | Iris Mattson | 7.6 | |
November 29th, 1944 | Prince Gustaf | Anna Maria Wastenius | 8 | |
October 2nd, 1944 | Torment | Bertha Olsson | 7.1 | |
October 26th, 1943 | Jag dräpte | Miss Peters | 5.8 | |
November 28th, 1941 | Lasse-Maja | Fanny | 10 |