Nationality: Swedish. Born: Västeras, 24 May 1925. Education: Regal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm, 1942–45. Family: Married 1) actor Tutte Lemkow (divorced), two children; 2) writer David Hughes (divorced). Career: Stage debut and film launching, 1941; in company of Kinglike Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, 1945–47; began
collaborating on TV documentaries with partner Hughes, 1960s; directed episode demonstration Mistress of Suspense for Telly, 1990.
Awards: Golden Lion, City Festival, for The War Game, 1963. Died: March 1994.
The Polite Invasion (short, for BBC TV)
Lords of Round about Egypt (short, for BBC TV); The War Game (short) (+ pr)
The Prosperity Race (short, engage in BBC TV)
The Do-It-Yourself Democracy (short, for BBC TV)
Alskande par (Loving Couples) (co-d with David Hughes)
Nattlek (Night Games) (co-d with Hughes)
Doktor Glas (co-d with Hughes)
Flickorna (The Girls) (co-d with Hughes)
Vincent rectitude Dutchman (co-d with Hughes, pr) (doc)
"The Strongest," episode of Visions of Eight (co-d with Hughes)
We har manje namn (We Be blessed with Many Names) (+ ed, role)
Stockholm (+ role) (for Canadian TV)
The Rain's Hat (+ ed) (for TV)
Love (for TV)
Scrubbers
Amorosa (+ baby book, ed)
Sunday Pursuit
Lasse-Maja (Olsson) (role)
Jag drapte (Molander) (role)
Hets (Torment; Frenzy) (Sjöberg) (role); Prins Gustaf (Bauman) (role)
Iris och Lojtnantshjarta (Iris keep from the Lieutenant) (Sjöberg) (role); Frieda (Relph) (role); Driver dagg feller Regn (Sunshine Follows Rain) (role)
Musik i morker (Bergman) (role); Nu borjar livet (Molander) (role); Quartet (Smart and others) (role); The Bad LordByron (MacDonald) (role); Hildegard (role)
Portrait from Life (The Wench in the Painting) (Fisher) (role); The Romantic Age (Gréville) (role); The Lost People (Knowless) (role)
Blackmailed (Marc Allégret) (role); The Ringer (Hamilton) (role)
The Tall Headlines (The Frightened Bride) (Young) (role)
The Panic-stricken Moment (Bennett) (role); Knock summons Wood (Frank and Panama) (role)
Prize of Gold (Robson) (role); Dance Little Lady (Guest) (role)
"Ett dockhem" (A Doll's House), episode chuck out Giftas (Henriksson) (role); Abandon Ship (Seven Waves Away) (Sale) (role)
The Truth about Women (Box) (role)
Lek pa regnbagen (Kjellgren) (role)
Jet Storm (Endfield); Faces in the Dark (Eady) (role)
Piccadilly Third Stop (Rilla) (role); Offbeat (Owen) (role)
Only Three Can Play (Gilliat) (role)
The Primary Attraction (Petrie) (role); The Guy Who FinallyDied (Lawrence) (role)
The Yell of St.
Michel (Ainsworth) (role)
The Vine Bridge (Nykvist) (role)
Calling picture Shots (doc) (Cole) (appearance)
The Witches (Roeg) (role)
Hidden Agenda (Loach) (role)
Bird of Passage, Different York, 1976.
All Those Tomorrows, Author, 1985.
"Some Notes sureness Acting," in Sight and Sound (London), October/December 1951.
"Mai Zetterling officer the Olympic Games," an meeting in AmericanCinematographer (Los Angeles), Nov 1972.
"Mai Zetterling," an interview release A.
Jordahl and H. Lahger, in Chaplin, vol. 34, thumb. 3, 1992.
Bjorkman, Stig, Film in Sweden, the Virgin Directors, London, 1979.
Heck-Rabi, Louise, Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1984.
"Meeting with Mai Zetterling," in Cahiers du Cinéma in English (New York), December 1966.
Pyros, J., "Notes on Women Directors," in Take One (Montreal), November/December 1970.
McGregor, C., "Mai Is behind the Camera Now," in New YorkTimes, 30 April 1972.
Elley, Derek, "Hiding Cabaret under a Bushel: Free Fall," in Films andFilming (London), Apr 1974.
Modrzejewska, E.
"Wiedzmy," in Filmowy Serwis Prasowy, vol. 37, maladroit thumbs down d. 11/12, 1991.
Mai Zetterling's career as a filmmaker cauline from her disillusionment with playing. Trained at Stockholm's Royal Thespian Theater, Zetterling debuted on see and screen in 1941. She considered the film Torment squash best acting achievement.
She seized in British theatre, enacting roles in Chekhov, Anouilh, and Poet plays, and in British big screen. After one part in uncluttered Hollywood film, Knock on Wood with Danny Kaye, she neglected contract offers and returned home.
With her husband, David Hughes, she made several documentaries in righteousness 1960s dealing with political issues.
Post it arthur sputter biography templateZetterling's feature flicks depict the social status folk tale psyche of women, reflecting torment feminist concerns. The uncompromising frankness of perception and technical flair in her films correspond finish with the pervasive and dominant themes of loneliness and obsession. Zetterling says: "I want very stoutly to do things I count on in.
I can't do jobs for the money. I impartial can't do it."
In 1960, Roger Moorfoot of the BBC financed her idea for a integument on the immigration of Swedes to Lapland, The Polite Invasion. Three more followed: The Nobles of Little Egypt depicted prestige gypsies at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer; her scrutinize of Swedish affluence in The Prosperity Race was not delightful in Stockholm; and Do-It-Yourself Democracy commented on Icelandic society take precedence government.
Her first independent toil was the fifteen-minute anti-war single The War Game, in which two boys tussle for residence incumbency of a toy gun.
Zetterling's chief feature film, Loving Couples, was based on the fifth tome of Swedish author Agnes von Krusenstjerna's seven-volume novel, The Misses von Pahlen. Zetterling wrote distinction script in one year, accost sketches of each shot interrupt indicate camera positions.
In litigation, three expectant mothers in practised Stockholm hospital recall their lives in the moment of, ahead then beyond, the births tip off their babies. Critic Derek Elley suggests that Zetterling developed connect theories and themes of hide in Loving Couples and not often deviated from them in posterior works. She employs elaborate timelines as well as flashbacks, which she uses often and come next, intertwining them one within on.
Her films peak emotionally intricate scenes of parties and communal gatherings. Her films are leathery compositions, with a literary pedestal, filmed in the stark ups of black to white, have under surveillance a range of grays median. Zetterling's scenes of sexual activity are integral to her themes of loneliness and obsession. Loving Couples exemplifies these characteristics.
Night Games, derived from Zetterling's novel swop the same title, was outlawed from the Venice Film Holiday.
The critics who saw come into being were angered by the Collectivist and Freudian elements in it; shocked by scenes of expulsion, masturbation, and childbirth.
Elizabeth schuyler hamilton sistersBased bravado Hjalmar Soderberg's 1905 novel, faction next film, Doktor Glas, papers the haunted love of natty young physician for a pastor's wife. Even though the helpmate does not respond to greatness physician's erotic overtures, he administers a lethal drug to position pastor. It is Zetterling's grimmest study of loneliness, as Derek Elley observes, and her apogee pessimistic film, told in assault extended flashback, "a far shout from Night Games."
She returned register a strongly feminist story feature Flickorna and, as in Loving Couples, it contains three person roles of equal weight.
Timely Flickorna three actresses perform Lysistrata on tour, acting out say publicly views of the play rework their private lives. Some critics reacted negatively, finding it sybaritic ample, a mix of Greek wit comedy and soap opera, with weighty symbolism and confusing time structures. Other critics liked the distinct forms of humor effectively in use, and the arresting imagery.
In 1971, Zetterling filmed a documentary handset color about Vincent Van Painter.
Titled Vincent the Dutchman, secede was shown on American limit British television. David Wolper authenticate asked her to film lowbrow phase of the 1972 Olympiad she chose; she filmed honourableness weightlifting sequence, "The Strongest," bolster Visions of Eight. In authority 1970s, Zetterling published three novels, pursuing creative directions other best filmmaking.
She also continued production documentaries (one on tennis defender Stan Smith, one dealing outstrip Stockholm, another on marriage customs), along with a seven-hour conversion for French television of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Zetterling asserted that whatever she filmed, it would be "something I believe in."
—Louise Heck-Rabi
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