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    Mai Zetterling 1964 Sweden Fiction b/w 118min Swedish DCP
    For her feature film directing debut, Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna's controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, "The Misses von Pahlen.” As three pregnant women from different backgrounds wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences via individual flashbacks. Drawing on the classic Ingmar Bergman style of Swedish filmmaking and collaborating with many of his favorite actors as well as the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Zetterling had produced a powerful fusion of personal emotional drama and a commentary on the role of women in a society in moral decline.

    Director

    Mai Zetterling

    Mai ZETTERLING is Swedish director and actress. It was in SJÖBERG's Torment (1944) with its screenplay by Ingmar BERGMAN that she achieved her acting breakthrough before she was offered lm parts in the UK and began her international acting and directing career. With her remarkable second career in directing, she was one of the few female directors in the 1960s and 70s. She often served as creative producer for her own lms and wrote her own screenplays. Most of them dealt explicitly with female sexuality and focused on the role of women in society.

    Mai Zetterling

    1990 Love at First Sight. Sunday Pursuit

    1986 Betongmormor

    1986 Amorosa

    1982 Love

    1982 Scrubbers

    1981 Of Seals and Men

    1978 Stockholm

    1977 Månen är en grön ost

    1975 We Have Many Names

    1973 Visions of Eight

    1968 The Girls

    1968 Dr. Glas

    1966 Night Games

    1966 Testfilm Mai Zetterling Island

    1964 Loving Couples

    1962 The War Game

    Director: Mai Zetterling

    Screenplay: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes

    Swedish Film Institute

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