Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Gisela Trowe · Carla Egerer · Rosemarie Heinikel · Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis 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.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Christine Kaufmann · Candy Darling · Manuela Riva

Synopsis A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer. Each tableau has a different motif, and each comes across with a decadent romanticism that lies somewhere between the Pre-Raphaelites and a quick...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Christine Kaufmann · Ila von Hasperg · Michael O'Daniels

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Nicola Zarbo · Otto Sander · Ida Di Benedetto · Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis 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. The young man is arrested after he kills two Germans...

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

Cast Tabea Blumenschein · Lutze · Magdalena Montezuma · Orpha Termin

Synopsis She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter day to leave La Rotonda. She purchased a ticket of...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Lou Castel · Eddie Constantine · Marquand Böhm · Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material...

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Delphine Seyrig · Albert Heins · Claudio Pantoja

Synopsis In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carole Bouquet · Ingrid Caven · Christine Kaufmann · Ida Di Benedetto

Synopsis Carol is a young woman dissatisfied and demanding with life. To prove herself, she pretends to be a terrorist. She is admitted and kept under observation in a residence, despite not being sick. The suicide of a patient will make...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Mostefa Djadjam · Antonio Orlando · Karina Fallenstein

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Rita Bauer · Carla Egerer · Steven Adamczewski

Synopsis In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, music, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Antonio Salines · Magdalena Montezuma · Kurt Raab · Agnès Nobecourt

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carla Egerer · Magdalena Montezuma · Sigurd Salto · Gisela Trowe

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Mascha Rabben · Magdalena Montezuma · Ellen Umlauf · Thomas von Keyserling

Synopsis Shot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde's play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.

Direction Rosa von Praunheim

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Rosa von Praunheim · Tally Brown · Divine

Synopsis Tally Brown was a classically trained opera and blues singer, and a star of underground films in New York City. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" and concludes with "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide."

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carla Egerer · Mascha Rabben · Magdalena Montezuma · Suzanne Sheed

Synopsis Der Bomberpilot tells the story of three eccentric women in Germany during the Nazi period who try to become show stars in America after the war.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Ellen Umlauf · Christine Kaufmann · Andrea Ferréol

Synopsis Four stories, "Cuba", "Drame du rail", "Cœur brisé" and "La trahison", framed by a prologue and an epilogue, exalt the sensuality of the bodies and the beauty of the faces.

Direction Gábor Altorjay

Cast Udo Kier · Christine Kaufmann · Dieter Thomas Heck · Tom Dokoupil

Synopsis Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. What if the reunion never happened? GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.

Direction Elfi Mikesch

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Bernd Broaderup · Heinz Emigholz · Carola Regnier

Synopsis Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis 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.

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

Cast Verushka · Delphine Seyrig · Tabea Blumenschein · Toyo Tanaka

Synopsis Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him.