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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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07 August 1959
In wartime, an English spy must go into neutral territory to murder a fellow-Englishman who has been working for the enemy.
24 October 1993
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
23 November 1990
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas.
28 November 1941
About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s.
01 July 1982
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
29 November 1944
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
15 April 1952
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
24 September 1982
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
24 November 1952
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
01 May 1990
Documentary looking at the making-of and real-life stories behind the award-winning conspiracy thrilx
01 January 1956
August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
22 August 1949
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands.
19 June 1947
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
25 February 2022
A journey through Swedish queer film history.
05 September 1960
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
16 September 1959
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
25 May 1990
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches.
29 January 1993
Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather who manages to confuse a couple of letters resulting in a mess of things.
18 April 1949
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
12 March 1957
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers.
26 October 1943
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
22 November 1960
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
30 January 1951
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
01 January 1961
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
21 November 1990
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles.
01 January 1996
Mai Zetterling is interviewed in the summer of 1984 in her house in southern France. Seventeen years have passed since the Girls were made in Sweden and were adversely affected by the criticism.
01 December 1963
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin.
06 October 1973
Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich.
20 December 1964
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
16 September 1968
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play.
02 October 1944
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway.
01 June 1951
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
01 November 1962
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
14 March 1986
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel.
12 June 1968
Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can.
03 January 1961
Every year in May several thousand 'Lords of Little Egypt' meet for festivities in the Camargue. Mai Zetterling stays with the gypsies and reports on how they live their lives.
01 December 1948
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
01 February 1992
One of the all-time greatest comedians, Peter Sellers’ mimicry, timing, instinct and ability to decimate an audience with laughter made him absolutely unforgettable.
12 September 1966
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
19 January 1962
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him.
06 April 1954
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous.
23 February 1958
Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual.
17 January 1948
In postwar Sweden, a gifted young pianist’s life is transformed after a tragic accident leaves him blind.
01 August 1963
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
01 January 1978
Mai Zetterling explores Swedish cultural canon in a Canadian TV-production called “Cities”. Zetterling herself play all the prominent roles.
25 August 1958
The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man.
27 February 1978
A story about Gerda, maid and unmarried. And a New Year's Eve in her life.
01 October 1957
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
31 December 1989
An intimate portrait of director Mai Zetterling that includes interviews with Zetterling, David Hughes (Zetterling’s ex-husband and the cowriter of LOVING COUPLES, NIGHT GAMES, and THE GIRLS), and actors Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Bibi Andersson.
13 July 1954
When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star.
01 January 1965
A Swedish scientist couple comes to a small African village to fight malaria.
14 October 1955
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
26 December 1946
The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm.
19 March 1976
A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?
01 March 1963
A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.
22 May 2015
A celebrated movie star, Mai Zetterling stepped behind the camera in the early 1960's as one of the few female directors in the world.
16 December 1946
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
17 March 1953
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge.
10 March 1977
A family in their summer house in the Stockholm archipelago. The two daughters fantasize they are adults, representing different colors - red, yellow, blue, green, violet, black and indigo.
