We Have Many Names plus Short Films

  • Mai Zetterling: We Have Many Names, 1976

  • Mai Zetterling: We Have Many Names, 1976

  • Mai Zetterling: We Have Many Names, 1976

  • Mai Zetterling: The War Game, 1963

  • Mai Zetterling: Visions of Eight, 1973

  • Mai Zetterling: Of Seals and Men, 1981

  • Sunday, Mar 16, 2025

    3:00 PM (141 mins)
    BAMPFA

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We Have Many Names plus Short Films

(Vi har många namn)

Mai Zetterling
Sweden, 1976
  • Lecture
    Anna Stenport

    Anna Stenport will give a thirty-minute lecture prior to the films.

    Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, and a scholar of Scandinavian, Arctic, and feminist film, media, and culture.

featuring

Mai Zetterling, Ewa Fröling, Gunnar Furumo, Ernst Günther,

Mai Zetterling directs and stars in this deeply personal study of a self-sacrificing woman reeling from her husband’s abandonment, told through flashbacks and fantasies. Zetterling, whose own marriage to David Hughes was falling apart when the film was made, drew on her experience—“I used all the pain and misery of the break-up of my marriage. It was a bitter medicine.” Zetterling took the film, which was originally conceived under the working title The Great Unwanted for the BBC, as part of UNESCO’s International Women’s Year, to Swedish Television, which wanted her to star.

Film Forum

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Mai Zetterling

Cinematographer

  • Rune Ericson

Language

  • Swedish
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • DCP
  • 54 mins

Source

  • Swedish Film Institute

Permission

  • Sveriges Television

Preceded By

The War Game

Mai Zetterling, United Kingdom, 1963

FEATURING
Ian Ellis
Joseph Robinson

The War Game is an antimilitarist fable featuring two young boys fighting for possession of a toy gun. Mai Zetterling’s first narrative film, made with her husband, English novelist David Hughes, with cinematography by Brian Probyn (Badlands), it was selected as the best short film of the year at the 1963 Venice Film Festival.

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Mai Zetterling
  • David Hughes

Cinematographer

  • Brian Probyn
  • Chris Menges

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 15 mins
source
  • Swedish Film Institute
permission
  • Zetterling Estate

Visions of Eight (excerpt “The Strongest”)

Mai Zetterling, United States, West Germany, 1973

Not much interested in sport, Mai Zetterling found herself fascinated by the “isolation and obsession” of Olympic weightlifters, bringing humor and compassion to her contribution to the 1973 omnibus film project Visions of Eight, alongside fellow directors Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger.

FILM DETAILS

Print Info

  • Color
  • Digital
  • 13 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Of Seals and Men

Mai Zetterling, Sweden, 1981

After a planned project documenting British explorer Wally Herbert’s circumnavigation of Greenland fell through, Mai Zetterling approached the Royal Greenland Trade Department to fund Of Seals and Men, a bare-bones thirty-minute pro–seal hunting documentary.

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Mai Zetterling

Cinematographer

  • Rune Ericson

Language

  • English
  • Greenlandic
  • Danish
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • DCP
  • 29 mins
source
  • Swedish Film Institute
permission
  • Zetterling Estate

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