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.

Фільмографія

• 1996Meeting with Mai
• 1993Minns ni? — (archive footage)
• 1993Morfars resa — Elin Fromm
• Love at First Sight — Director
• Chillers — Director, Writer
• 1990Hidden Agenda — Moa
• 1990Sunday Pursuit — Director
• 1990Відьми — Helga Eveshim
• 1986Amorosa — Director, Writer, Editor
• 1986Concrete Grandma — Director
• Автостопник — Director
• 1982Love — Writer, Director
• 1982Scrubbers — Writer, Director
• 1981Of Seals and Men — Director, Writer
• 1978Mai Zetterling's Stockholm — Director
• 1978Stulet nyår — Gerda
• Svenska noveller — Gerda
• 1977My Heart Is Red — Nietzsche
• 1977The Moon Is a Green Cheese — Director, Writer
• 1976We Have Many Names — Lena, Director
• 1973Visions of Eight — Narrator, Director
• 1972Vincent the Dutchman — Director
• 1968Doctor Glas — Director, Screenplay
• 1968The Girls — Director, Writer
• One Pair of Eyes
• 1966Night Games — Writer, Director
• 1965Lianbron
• 1964Loving Couples — Director, Writer
• 1963The Bay of St. Michel
• 1963The Man Who Finally Died — Lisa von Deutsch
• 1963The War Game — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 1962Only Two Can Play — Liz
• 1962The Main Attraction — Gina
• 1961Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies — Director
• 1961Offbeat — Ruth Lombard
• Danger Man — Nadia
• 1960Faces in the Dark — Christiane Hammond
• 1960Piccadilly Third Stop — Christine Preedy
• Interpol Calling — Carol
• 1959Jet Storm — Carol Tilley
• The Third Man
• 1959The Traitor — Frau Caypor
• 1958Playing on the Rainbow
• 1958The Master Builder — Hilda Wangel
• 1957Seven Waves Away — Nurse Julie White
• 1957The Truth About Women — Julie Eaton
• Armchair Theatre — Miss Julie, Louise Josse
• 1956Ett dockhem — Gurli Pall
• 1955A Prize of Gold — Maria
• 1954Dance Little Lady — Nina Gordon
• 1954Knock on Wood — Ilse Nordstrom
• 1953Desperate Moment — Anna DeBurg
• 1952Tall Headlines — Doris Rickardson
• 1952The Ringer — Lisa
• 1951Blackmailed — Mrs. Carol Edwards
• 1951Hell Is Sold Out — Valerie Martin
• 1949The Bad Lord Byron — Teresa Guiccioli
• 1949The Lost People — Lily
• 1949The Romantic Age — Arlette Tessereau
• 1948Life Starts Now — Vera Ullman
• 1948Music in Darkness — Ingrid Olofsson
• 1948Portrait from Life — Lidia
• 1948Quartet — Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
• Studio One — Gabrielle
• 1947Frieda — Frieda
• 1946Iris and the Lieutenant — Iris Mattson
• 1946Sunshine Follows Rain — Marit Germundsdotter
• 1944Prince Gustaf — Anna Maria Wastenius
• 1944Torment — Bertha Olsson
• 1943Jag dräpte — Miss Peters
• 1941Lasse-Maja — Fanny
• The Polite Invasion — Director

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (7)

• 2022Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling — Self (archival footage)
• 1992Sellers' Best — Self
• 1990The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' — Self
• 1989Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress — Self
• 1988Calling the Shots — Self
• Film '72 — Self