Mai Zetterling Movies

As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and...

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.

A married priest woos a seamstress.

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's...

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...

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.

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn....

A journey through Swedish queer film history.

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...

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...

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...

Inuit seal hunting.

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Mai Zetterling goes to Lapland and makes a documentary about the Sami people and their dwindling existence as nomads. Civilization and the Swedes are...

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

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...

Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.