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Magdalena Montezuma was born in 1943 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany as Erika Kluge. She was an actress, known for The Death of Maria Malibran (1972), Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim (1971) and The Rose King (1986). She died on July 15, 1984 in Berlin, Germany.
Total trailers found: 34
22 April 1983
Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it.
27 October 1983
Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
03 November 1972
Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".
03 March 1986
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
04 May 1979
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim.
11 June 1971
Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti.
18 December 1971
Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several electronic cameras.
14 February 1982
Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house.
12 March 1982
Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans.
20 May 1976
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.
31 October 1981
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
10 October 1969
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.
03 November 1970
Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who search for a career as singers and dancers.
07 March 1969
Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.
15 February 1971
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes.
09 January 1981
Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers.
01 September 1971
Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiting, so they drink heavily.
12 June 1973
Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.
26 October 1970
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners.
06 November 1981
Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.
01 January 1975
With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran.
27 October 1979
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
02 March 1972
A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.
20 February 1977
Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls and two gay men, the old IRA general Musjö and Mr.
11 May 1983
Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business.
20 September 1979
This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of Mary Stuart.
01 February 1980
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
09 March 1984
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr.
01 January 1971
Lady Macbeth, driven by ambition, urges her husband, Macbeth, to murder King Duncan. Macbeth becomes king but descends into madness.
07 May 1974
Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico.
07 March 1969
In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.
24 July 1975
Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed.
