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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.
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.
Swedish stage and screen actress, film director and author who made her most important contribution to Swedish cinema as an advocate of women's rights and a critic of contemporary society.
Dec 13, 2022 · B y the time Mai Zetterling decided to become a filmmaker, she had already been a stage and screen actor for nearly twenty years, beginning as a teenager in the early 1940s in her native Sweden. Sweet-faced, blonde, and a skilled, sensitive performer, she enchanted both audiences and critics.
