Screenplay: Mai Zetterling

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mai Zetterling. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Loving Couples

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Harriet Andersson · Gunnel Lindblom · Gio Petré · Anita Björk

Synopsis Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives.

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

The Girls

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Bibi Andersson · Harriet Andersson · Gunnel Lindblom · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes' classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with...

6.1

23 votes

6.1

23 votes

Night Games

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Keve Hjelm · Jörgen Lindström · Lena Brundin

Synopsis On the night before his marriage, a young man and his fiancee return to the castle where he grew up to find out why he is impotent. In flashbacks, it is shown that his aristocratic mother indulged in nearly every...

5.9

38 votes

5.9

38 votes

The Moon Is a Blue Cheese

1977 · Movie · 72 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Ingvar Boman · Lars Edström · Ewa Fröling · Jill Purce

Synopsis 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.

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Chillers (TV Series)

1990 · Series · 50 min. · France

Direction Mai Zetterling · Roger Andrieux · Maroun Bagdadi · John Berry

Cast Anthony Perkins · Stéphane Freiss · Assumpta Serna · Jean-Pierre Bisson

Synopsis Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature. Episode 1: The Cat Brought It In Episode 2: Sauce for the Goose Episode 3: Old Folks at Home Episode 4: The...

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Of Seals and Men

1978 · Documentary · 29 min. · Denmark

Direction Mai Zetterling

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We Have Many Names (TV)

1976 · Movie · 51 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Ewa Fröling · Gunnar Furumo · Ernst Günther · Gun Jönsson

Synopsis A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves? A drama about love, divorce, identity and feminism.

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Amorosa

1986 · Movie · 117 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Stina Ekblad · Erland Josephson · Börje Ahlstedt · Anita Björk

Synopsis This well-executed biographical docudrama is a plunge into the madness (and the sanity) of a writer living life on its rawest edges. Agnes Von Krusenstjarna (Stina Ekbland) was a Swedish novelist (1894-1940) whose works ranged from the idyllically romantic to...

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Scrubbers

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Amanda York · Chrissie Cotterill · Elizabeth Edmonds · Kate Ingram

Synopsis Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured and sent to a closed borstal...

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Doctor Glas

1968 · Movie · 83 min. · Sweden

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Per Oscarsson · Lone Hertz · Ulf Palme · Bente Dessau

Synopsis Doktor Glas face ethical complications when a woman, Helga Gregorius, asks for help in preventing her husband, the disgusting Pastor Gregorius, to have sex with her.

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Cities (TV Series)

1979 · Documentary · 60 min. · Canada

Direction John McGreevy

Cast Glenn Gould · Peter Ustinov · George Plimpton · Anthony Burgess

Synopsis Celebrities present their favourite world cities.

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The War Game (S)

1963 · Movie · 15 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Ian Ellis · Joseph Robinson

Synopsis Two boys quarrel about a toy pistol. The game becomes serious. On the roof in a skyskraper district they risk their lifes for the toy pistol.

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