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The Witches

as Helga Eveshim

1990
Hidden Agenda

as Moa

1990
The Man Who Finally Died

as Lisa von Deutsch

1967
Only Two Can Play

as Liz

1962
Offbeat

as Ruth Lombard

1961
Faces in the Dark

as Christiane Hammond

1964
Jet Storm

as Carol Tilley

1961
The Master Builder

as Hilda Wangel

1958
Abandon Ship

as Nurse Julie White

1957
A Prize of Gold

as Maria

1955
Knock on Wood

as Ilse Nordstrom

1954
The Ringer

as Lisa

1952
Blackmailed

as Mrs. Carol Edwards

1951
Hell Is Sold Out

as Valerie Martin

1951
The Lost People

as Lily

1949
Frieda

as Frieda

1947
Mai Zetterling Mai Zetterling

Birthday

1925-05-24

Place of Birth

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.
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