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Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough as an actress came in the 1944 film Torment written for her [8] by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl.
Mai Zetterling. Actress: The Witches. Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens.
Mar 19, 1994 · Mai Zetterling, the Swedish actress who went on to a career as one of Europe's busiest female film directors, died on Tuesday in London. She was 68 and had...
May 20, 2024 · Mai Zetterling (born May 24, 1925, Västerås, Sweden—died March 15?, 1994, London, England) was a Swedish actress, director, and novelist. As a director, she imbued her work with a passionate feminism.
A fearlessly transgressive, long-overlooked pioneer of feminist cinema, the Swedish actor turned director Mai Zetterling ruffled the feathers of the patriarchal establishment with a string of bracingly modern, sexually frank, and politically incendiary films focused on female agency and the turbulent state of twentieth-century Europe.
Mai Zetterling. Actress: The Witches. Mai Zetterling was born in Sweden in 1925, and lived briefly in Australia while still a child. She's known as a director and actor and trained on the Stockholm repertory stage, she began appearing in war-era films starting in her teens.
Dec 13, 2022 · As a female filmmaker of the sixties, Zetterling has often been discussed principally as a pioneering woman director, or as a feminist director who brought a woman’s perspective to the screen.
Oct 19, 2020 · Where to begin with Mai Zetterling. With her debut feature Loving Couples getting a rare screening at BFI Southbank, we pick a beginner’s path through the transgressive and anarchic cinema of Swedish director Mai Zetterling.
Mar 19, 1994 · Mai Elisabeth Zetterling, actress: born Vasteras, Sweden 24 May 1925; married (one son, one daughter); died London 17 March 1994. 'WOULD you take Frieda into your home?' So went one of the...
Already in her feature debut Loving Couples ( Älskande par, 1964), Mai Zetterling emanates as a wilful and highly opinionated creator of rich images with more in common with filmmakers like Luis Buñuel, Alf Sjöberg and Ingmar Bergman than with political social realists of the 1960s and 70s.
