Mai Zetterling
Born May 24, 1925 (Age: 100)
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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.
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
Meeting with Mai
1996
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as
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Age: 70
Minns ni?
1993
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 68
Morfars resa
1993
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as Elin Fromm
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Age: 67
Sellers' Best
1992
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as Self
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Age: 66
Hidden Agenda
1990
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as Moa
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Age: 65
The Witches
1990
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as Helga Eveshim
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Age: 65
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
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as Self
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Age: 64
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
1989
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as Self
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Age: 64
Calling the Shots
1988
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as Self
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Age: 63
No Image
Stulet nyår
1978
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as Gerda
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Age: 52
Mai Zetterling's Stockholm
1978
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Age: 52
My Heart Is Red
1977
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as Nietzsche
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Age: 51
Visions of Eight
1973
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as Narrator
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Age: 48
Lianbron
1965
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Age: 39
The Man Who Finally Died
1963
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as Lisa von Deutsch
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Age: 38
The Bay of St. Michel
1963
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Age: 37
The Main Attraction
1962
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as Gina
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Age: 37
Only Two Can Play
1962
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as Liz
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Age: 36
No Image
Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
1961
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as
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Age: 35
Offbeat
1961
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as Ruth Lombard
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Age: 35
Faces in the Dark
1960
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as Christiane Hammond
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Age: 35
Piccadilly Third Stop
1960
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as Christine Preedy
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Age: 35
Jet Storm
1959
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as Carol Tilley
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Age: 34
No Image
The Traitor
1959
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as Frau Caypor
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Age: 34
Playing on the Rainbow
1958
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Age: 33
The Master Builder
1958
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as Hilda Wangel
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Age: 32
Ett dockhem
1956
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as Gurli Pall
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Age: 30
A Prize of Gold
1955
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as Maria
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Age: 30
Dance Little Lady
1954
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as Nina Gordon
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Age: 29
Knock on Wood
1954
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as Ilse Nordstrom
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Age: 28
Desperate Moment
1953
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as Anna DeBurg
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Age: 27
Lasse-Maja
1941
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as Fanny
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Age: 16