Mai Zetterling
Nacimiento : 1925-05-24, Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Muerte : 1994-03-17
Historia
Mai Zetterling; actriz, directora y productora de cine, guionista, documentalista y escritora sueca.
Se inició en el cine en 1941, logrando llamar la atención de cineastas británicos por su papel en la película "Tortura" (Hets) en 1944. En 1947 fue invitada por el director británico Basil Dearden para representar el papel principal en la película "Frieda". Su actuación en esta película le valió un contrato con la empresa Organización Rank.
El mismo año actúa en la película "Noche eterna" (Musik i mörker) de Ingmar Bergman, rodada en Suecia, para después regresar a Londres, donde continuó su carrera fílmica como actriz, participando en unas 22 películas en ese país hasta el año 1963. En este período también participó en una cinta estadounidense: "Knock on Wood" (1954) junto a Danny Kaye, y en 2 films suecos: "Ett dockhem" (1956) y "Lek på regnbågen" (1958).
En la década de 1960 orientó su carrera hacia la realización, colaborando con la British Broadcasting Corporation TV ( BBC TV) en varios documentales de contenido sociológico como: "The Polite Invasion" (1960) y "Little Lords of Egypt" (1961). También en 1961 dirigió su primer cortometraje "The War Game".
Su primer largometraje "Los Enamorados" (Alskande Par) lo realizó en 1964, y fue nominado para la Palma de Oro del Festival de Cannes en 1965. En 1966 su segundo largometraje "Juegos de Noche" (Nattlek), fue nominado para el León de Oro del Festival de Venecia. Este film está basado en una novela escrita por ella misma.
Durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980 continuó dirigiendo y co-dirigiendo largometrajes, documentales y series de TV, escribiendo además los guiones de sus películas "Scrubbers" (1982) y "Amorosa" (1986).
Recibió un premio en el Nordische Filmtage Lübeck (1986).
En 1990 protagonizó junto a Anjelica Huston la película "The Witches", dirigida por el británico Nicolas Roeg.
Su último film como directora fue "Sunday Pursuit" (1990). Su último film como actriz fue "Morfars resa" (1993).
Self
A journey through Swedish film history by the depictions of the dykes, gays and transgender people for 100 years. From Stiller via Bergman and Zetterling to the present day, they queer their rightful place.
Self (archival footage)
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. Her works were immediately celebrated worldwide but were later marginalized and forgotten. Always controversial, she stepped on some male toes while telling stories of marital oppression and human liberation. How come we know so little about one of Sweden's most innovative directors? And is what we know true?
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. Zetterling discusses why she left Sweden and resides at crucial times in her life; The drama period, to be celebrated actress and then to move to pave his way in the male-dominated director's profession. A guiding star in Zetterling's life has been to constantly expand its boundaries.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Elin Fromm
Film by Staffan Lamm.
Director
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. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.
Moa
Un abogado estadounidense proderechos humanos muere asesinado en Belfast. Su novia y un duro detective británico, nada satisfechos con la versión oficial de los hechos, investigan por su cuenta para saber qué sucedió realmente. Pronto descubrirán que el hombre había reunido pruebas documentales que sacaban a la luz turbios manejos del gobierno de las islas.
Helga Eveshim
Luke es un niño apasionado por las historias de misterio. Un día, las leyendas contadas por su abuela sobre la existencia de las brujas lo introducen en un mundo misterioso.
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.
Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Director
Shows projects built by Skanska all over the world. In Germany, Algeria, Indonesia, Greenland, but also Sweden; Stockholm, Åre and Helsingborg.
Editor
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Writer
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Director
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Writer
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Director
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Writer
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
Director
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
Gerda
A story about Gerda, maid and unmarried. And a New Year's Eve in her life.
Swedish actress Mai Zetterling offers a look at Stockholm.
Director
Swedish actress Mai Zetterling offers a look at Stockholm.
Nietzsche
A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Lena
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?
Director
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?
Narrator
Ocho prestigiosos directores de todo el mundo dieron su visión de las Olimpiadas en este film de episodios repleto de hallazgos visuales: Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger, Kon Ichikawa, Mai Zetterling, Yuri Ozerov y Michel Pfleghar.
Director
Ocho prestigiosos directores de todo el mundo dieron su visión de las Olimpiadas en este film de episodios repleto de hallazgos visuales: Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger, Kon Ichikawa, Mai Zetterling, Yuri Ozerov y Michel Pfleghar.
Director
A long, brave reach for a portrait, not of an intimate, private love, but of an inspiration, an icon, a man only ever sketched obliquely however many times he painted himself.
Director
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Writer
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Screenplay
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. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality.
Director
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. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality.
Writer
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Director
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Lisa von Deutsch
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. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Producer
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
Screenplay
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
Director
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.
Gina
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
Liz
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Director
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.
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.
Ruth Lombard
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.
Christiane Hammond
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
Christine Preedy
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.
Carol Tilley
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Hilda Wangel
Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.
Nurse Julie White
Cuando un crucero de lujo (el Crescent Star) se hunde al chocar contra una mina flotante, en un bote salvavidas de capacidad para nueve personas se refugian 26 supervivientes. Pronto se acaba el repelente de tiburones, se acerca un huracán, hay pocos alimentos y poca agua y, en estas circunstancias, no queda más remedio que decidir sobre quién se queda y quién debe abandonar el bote.
Julie Eaton
Un hombre recuerda sus relaciones con las mujeres que amó, mientras intenta ayudar a otro hombre a tratar de comprenderlas.
Gurli Pall
Maria
Adaptación de una novela de Max Cotto. Terminada la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark), un oficial americano, se instala en Berlín y se enamora de Maria, una refugiada (Mai Zetterling). El objetivo de ella es ahorrar suficiente dinero para llevar a Sudámerica a un grupo de huérfanos alemanes y proporcionarles una vida mejor. Joe, movido por la compasión y por el amor que siente hacia ella, tratará de ayudarla. Para ello, él y dos amigos planean el robo de una gran fortuna en oro que el ejército va a trasladar en avión desde Inglaterra a Alemania.
Nina Gordon
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. Drama.
Ilse Nordstrom
El ventrílocuo Jerry Morgan ha vuelto a fracasar en el amor. La razón: cuando la relación llega al punto de discutir el matrimonio, su muñeco, Clarence, se vuelve celoso. Su prometida, Audrey, le abandona por lo que Jerry golpea a sus dos muñecos, Clarence y Terrence. Papinek, el creador de los muñecos de Morgan, resulta ser un importante espía, y usará a Jerry y a sus muñecos para transportar unos planos
Anna DeBurg
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. (BFI Website)
Lisa
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Doris Rickardson
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Valerie Martin
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
Mrs. Carol Edwards
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. (BFI Website)
Arlette Tessereau
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
Lily
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. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
Teresa Guiccioli
Gravemente herido durante una campaña militar en Grecia, Lord Byron sueña que es juzgado al morir por ser, de una parte, poeta y soldado, y de otra seductor y libertino. Entre los testigos se encuentran la infame Lady caroline Lamb y su esposa Annabella, algo más pura... (filmaffinit)
Lidia
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.
Jeanne
"Cuarteto" es una película británica con cuatro segmentos, cada uno basado en una historia de W. Somerset Maugham. Cada segmento es presentado por el autor. Fue un éxito y eso propició producir dos secuelas "Trio" (1950) y "Encore" (1951), y popularizó el formato de película de compendio. Los guiones de las historias fueron escritos por R. C. Sherriff.
Vera Ullman
A married priest woos a seamstress.
Ingrid Olofsson
Un soldado, que se ha quedado ciego a causa de un accidente, encuentra trabajo como pianista en un restaurante, pero no consigue acostumbrarse a que lo vean como un inválido. Una joven obrera se fijará en él y tratará de reconfortarlo.
Frieda
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
Marit Germundsdotter
The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.
Iris Mattson
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.
Anna Maria Wastenius
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.
Bertha Olsson
Un profesor de latín, apodado Calígula, de carácter paranoico, goza persiguiendo a uno de sus alumnos, Jan-Erik Widgren, y satisface su sadismo en una joven vendedora en un estanco llamada Bertha. Widgren se enamorará de Bertha, sin saber que ella también se relaciona con Calígula.
Miss Peters
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Fanny
About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.
