May butterfly

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May Zetterling (1948)

Mai Zetterling ( pronunciation : [ ˌmaʝ ˈsɛtːəɹliŋ ], * May 24, 1925 in Västerås as Mai Elizabeth Zetterling ; † March 17, 1994 in London ) was a Swedish actress , film director and screenwriter and book writer .

Life

Mai Zetterling came from a humble background and was accepted into the Royal Dramatic Theater Dramatens elevskola , the training center of the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm , at the age of 17 . While still a student (1942–1945) she received her first roles and was a member of the ensemble until 1947. After that she had an engagement in London and played in plays by Anouilh , Chekhov and Ibsen .

She made her film debut in 1941 at the age of 16 in a film by Gunnar Olsson . She became internationally known with her portrayal of the victim of a sadistic professor in Die Hörige (1944) by Alf Sjöberg . Ingmar Bergman wrote the script for this film . From 1950 she appeared in addition to her work at the theater mainly in British films.

From 1944 to 1953 she was married to the actor and dancer Tutte Lemkow . The marriage resulted in a son and daughter. In 1959 she married the screenwriter David Hughes .

In 1960 Mai Zetterling made her debut as a director. She worked for the BBC and made short films and documentaries about dealing with ethnic minorities, discrimination against women and problems facing adolescents. She received an award at the Venice Film Festival for her short film The War Game (1963) . From 1964 she and her husband also wrote screenplays and directed in Sweden. Her films provoke with the themes of loneliness and sexual obsessions. The literary film Loving Couples (1964) was rejected in Cannes and Secret Games (1966) was excluded from the competition in Venice because of its drastic scenes. The audience was then ripe for Die Mädchen .

After she was portrayed in the documentary Women in Direction (1988), Zetterling appeared in front of the camera for the first time since the mid-1960s in Nicolas Roeg's The Witches (1989).

Since the mid-1960s, Mai Zetterling has published several novels.

Filmography (selection)

actress

  • 1941: Lasse-Maja
  • 1943: Jag drove
  • 1944: Prins Gustaf
  • 1944: Die Hörige (Hets) - Director: Alf Sjöberg
  • 1946: Das Mädchen vom Germundshof (Driver dragg, faller regn) - Director: Gustaf Edgren
  • 1946: Iris och löjtnantshjärta
  • 1947: Music in the Dark (Musik i mörker) - Director: Ingmar Bergman
  • 1948: quartet (Quartet)
  • 1948: Nu börjar livet
  • 1949: The Romantic Age - Directed by Edmond T. Gréville
  • 1949: Vom Sinigen Poeten (The Bad Lord Byron) - Directed by David MacDonald
  • 1950: Crimes Without Guilt (Blackmailed) - Director: Marc Allégret
  • 1952: The Tall Headlines
  • 1952: The Ringer
  • 1953: Seconds of Desperate (Desperate Moment) - Director: Compton Bennett
  • 1953: The Strangler Comes at Midnight (The Ringer) - Directed by Guy Hamilton
  • 1954: The Laughing Bomb (Knock on Wood) - Director: Melvin Frank
  • 1954: Born to dance (Dance Little Lady) - Director: Val Guest
  • 1955: Keyword: Berlin - Tempelhof (A Prize of Gold) - Director: Mark Robson
  • 1956: Ett dockhem
  • 1957: Fear Has a Thousand Names (Abandon Ship!) - Director: Richard Sale
  • 1958: The Truth About Women
  • 1958: Lek på regnbågen
  • 1959: Death Is Belated (Jet Storm) - directed by Cy Endfield
  • 1960: Faces in the Dark
  • 1960: The signal is red (Piccadilly Third Stop) - Director: Wolf Rilla
  • 1960: In the Clutches of the FBI (Offbeat) - Director: Cliff Owen
  • 1961: You can only love as a couple (Only Two Can Play) - Director: Sidney Gilliat
  • 1962: The Nights with Nancy (The Main Attraction) - Director: Daniel Petrie
  • 1962: The Man Who Finally Died
  • 1962: The Prosperity Race
  • 1963: The Bay of St. Michael
  • 1963: The Do-It-Yourself Democracy
  • 1965: Lianbron
  • 1968: The girls - also directed
  • 1988: Women direct (Calling the Shots)
  • 1989: Hexen hexen (The Witches) - Director: Nicolas Roeg
  • 1990: Hidden Agenda - Director: Ken Loach

Director

  • 1960: The Polite Invasion
  • 1961: Lords of Little Egypt
  • 1963: The War Game (short film)
  • 1964: Loving couples (Älskande par)
  • 1966: Secret games (Nattlek) ( online at vikv.net)
  • 1968: Doctor Glas (Dr. Glas)
  • 1968: The Girls (Flickorna)
  • 1971: Vincent the Dutchman
  • 1973: Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympiad (Visions of Eight) - Episode The Strongest
  • 1976: We har manje namn (short film)
  • 1977: Stockholm
  • 1982: Black-Out in Hell's Paradise (Scrubbers)
  • 1982: Love
  • 1986: Amorosa (Amorosa)
  • 1990: Sunday Pursuit

Book publications

  • Night Games , New York 1966
    • German title: Games of the night. Novel. Translated from English into German by Erika Nosbüsch. Desch, Munich 1966 (series "books of love", vol. 50)
  • All Those Tomorrows. Grove Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-394-55563-5

Web links

Commons : Mai Zetterling  - Collection of images
personal data
SURNAME Zetterling, May
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zetterling, Mai Elizabeth (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Västerås , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1994
Place of death London , England , UK