• Mai Zetterling: We Have Many Names plus Short Films, 1976

  • Mai Zetterling: We Have Many Names plus Short Films, 1976

  • Mai Zetterling: We Have Many Names plus Short Films, 1976

  • Mai Zetterling: The War Game, 1963

  • Mai Zetterling: Visions of Eight, 1973

  • Mai Zetterling: Of Seals and Men, 1981


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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 Dean and University of Georgia Foundation Professor of Arts and Sciences and has a forthcoming publication with Mariah Larsson on The Girls (BFI Film Classics).

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

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

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

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