Mai Zetterling
Birthday
1925/05/24
Day of death
1994/03/17 (68 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Also know as
Maj Zetterling, Mai Elizabeth Zetterling, مای زترلینگ
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...Read more
Acting
(1948) Nu börjar livet
as Vera Ullman
(1990) The Witches
as Helga Eveshim
(1956) Ett dockhem
as Gurli Pall
(1993) Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
(1990) Hidden Agenda
as Moa
(1946) Sunshine Follows Rain
as Marit Germundsdotter
(1948) Music in Darkness
as Ingrid Olofsson
(1944) Torment
as Bertha Olsson
(1959) The Traitor
as Frau Caypor
(1962) Only Two Can Play
as Liz
(1947) Frieda
as Frieda
(1954) Knock on Wood
as Ilse Nordstrom
(1960) Faces in the Dark
as Christiane Hammond
(1948) Quartet
as Jeanne
(1957) Abandon Ship
as Nurse Julie White
(1958) The Master Builder
as Hilda Wangel
(1963) The Man Who Finally Died
as Lisa von Deutsch
(1961) Offbeat
as Ruth Lombard
(1955) A Prize of Gold
as Maria
(1951) Blackmailed
as Mrs. Carol Edwards
(1953) Desperate Moment
as Anna DeBurg
(1992) Sellers' Best
as Self
(2022) Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
as Self (archive footage)
(1960) Piccadilly Third Stop
as Christine Preedy
(1943) Jag dräpte
as Miss Peters
(1949) Naughty Arlette
as Arlette Tessereau
(1973) Visions of Eight
as Narrator
(1962) The Main Attraction
as Gina
(1949) The Lost People
as Lily
(1951) Hell Is Sold Out
as Valerie Martin
(1952) The Ringer
as Lisa
(1948) Portrait from Life
as Lidia
(1959) Jet Storm
as Carol Tilley
(1954) Dance Little Lady
as Nina Gordon
(1944) Prince Gustaf
as Anna Maria Wastenius
(1952) Tall Headlines
as Doris Rickardson
(1946) Iris and the Lieutenant
as Iris Mattson
(1990) The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as Self
(1989) Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
as Self
(1958) Playing on the Rainbow
as ---
(1965) Lianbron
as ---
(1957) The Truth About Women
as Julie Eaton
(1949) The Bad Lord Byron
as Teresa Guiccioli
(1976) We Have Many Names
as Lena
(1961) Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies
as ---
(1963) The Bay of St. Michel
as ---
(1993) Morfars resa
as Elin Fromm
(1941) Lasse-Maja
as Fanny
(1977) My Heart Is Red
as Nietzsche
(1978) Stulet nyår
as Gerda
(2015) Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling
as Self (archival footage)
(1996) Meeting with Mai
as ---
(1988) Calling the Shots
as Self
(1978) Mai Zetterling's Stockholm
as ---
(1948) Studio One
as Gabrielle
(1959) Interpol Calling
as Carol
(1959) The Third Man
as ---
(1978) Svenska noveller
as Gerda