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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 24, 1925
Died
March 17, 1994
Place of Birth
Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Also Known As
- Maj Zetterling
- Mai Elizabeth Zetterling
- مای زترلینگ
Mai Zetterling
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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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2022
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Self (archival footage)
Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling
2015
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Meeting with Mai
1996
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(archive footage)
Minns ni?
1993
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Elin Fromm
Morfars resa
1993
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Self
Sellers' Best
1992
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Moa
Hidden Agenda
1990
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Helga Eveshim
The Witches
1990
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Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
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Self
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
1989
Credits
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
as Self (archive footage)
2022
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Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling
as Self (archival footage)
2015
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Meeting with Mai
1996
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Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
1993
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Morfars resa
as Elin Fromm
1993
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Sellers' Best
as Self
1992
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Hidden Agenda
as Moa
1990
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The Witches
as Helga Eveshim
1990
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The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as Self
1990
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Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
as Self
1989
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Calling the Shots
as Self
1988
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Stulet nyår
as Gerda
1978
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Svenska noveller
as Gerda
1978
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Mai Zetterling's Stockholm
1978
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My Heart Is Red
as Nietzsche
1977
3.5
We Have Many Names
as Lena
1976
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Visions of Eight
as Narrator
1973
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Film '72
as Self
1971
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Lianbron
1965
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The Man Who Finally Died
as Lisa von Deutsch
1963
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The Bay of St. Michel
1963
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The Main Attraction
as Gina
1962
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Only Two Can Play
as Liz
1962
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Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
1961
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Offbeat
as Ruth Lombard
1961
6.1
Faces in the Dark
as Christiane Hammond
1960
6.2
Piccadilly Third Stop
as Christine Preedy
1960
6.5
The Third Man
1959
7.1
Jet Storm
as Carol Tilley
1959
6.8
Interpol Calling
as Carol
1959
6.7
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The Traitor
as Frau Caypor
1959
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Playing on the Rainbow
1958
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The Master Builder
as Hilda Wangel
1958
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The Truth About Women
as Julie Eaton
1957
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Abandon Ship
as Nurse Julie White
1957
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Ett dockhem
as Gurli Pall
1956
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A Prize of Gold
as Maria
1955
5.4
Dance Little Lady
as Nina Gordon
1954
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Knock on Wood
as Ilse Nordstrom
1954
6.6
Desperate Moment
as Anna DeBurg
1953
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The Ringer
as Lisa
1952
5.8
Tall Headlines
as Doris Rickardson
1952
5.8
Hell Is Sold Out
as Valerie Martin
1951
5.7
Blackmailed
as Mrs. Carol Edwards
1951
2.7
The Romantic Age
as Arlette Tessereau
1949
5.1
The Lost People
as Lily
1949
5.7
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The Bad Lord Byron
as Teresa Guiccioli
1949
6.0
Portrait from Life
as Lidia
1948
5.9
Studio One
as Gabrielle
1948
5.0
Quartet
as Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
1948
6.2
Life Starts Now
as Vera Ullman
1948
1.0
Music in Darkness
as Ingrid Olofsson
1948
6.1
Frieda
as Frieda
1947
5.1
Sunshine Follows Rain
as Marit Germundsdotter
1946
5.5
Iris and the Lieutenant
as Iris Mattson
1946
7.4
Prince Gustaf
as Anna Maria Wastenius
1944
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Torment
as Bertha Olsson
1944
7.1
Jag dräpte
as Miss Peters
1943
3.5
Lasse-Maja
as Fanny
1941
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