Magdalena Montezuma Movies

  • 1981
    Day of the Idiots

    Day of the Idiots

    Day of the Idiots

    5.81981HD

    A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

    Day of the Idiots
  • 1983
    Kiez

    Kiez

    Kiez

    31983HD

    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 fi...

    Kiez
  • 1982
    Macumba

    Macumba

    Macumba

    01982HD

    Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining t...

    Macumba
  • 1979
    Ticket of No Return

    Ticket of No Return

    Ticket of No Return

    61979HD

    A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

    Ticket of No Return
  • 1981
    Freak Orlando

    Freak Orlando

    Freak Orlando

    5.21981HD

    FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who...

    Freak Orlando
  • 1973
    Willow Springs

    Willow Springs

    Willow Springs

    5.51973HD

    Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.

    Willow Springs
  • 1969
    Neurasia

    Neurasia

    Neurasia

    6.41969HD

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

    Neurasia
  • 1971
    Eika Katappa

    Eika Katappa

    Eika Katappa

    6.41971HD

    Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – wi...

    Eika Katappa
  • 1971
    Salome

    Salome

    Salome

    01971HD

    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 R...

    Salome
  • 1972
    The Death of Maria Malibran

    The Death of Maria Malibran

    The Death of Maria Malibran

    6.71972HD

    A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

    The Death of Maria Malibran
  • 1976
    Goldflocken

    Goldflocken

    Goldflocken

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    Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evo...

    Goldflocken
  • 1970
    Der Bomberpilot

    Der Bomberpilot

    Der Bomberpilot

    5.81970HD

    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...

    Der Bomberpilot
  • 1969
    Argila

    Argila

    Argila

    91969HD

    Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

    Argila
  • 1986
    The Rose King

    The Rose King

    The Rose King

    6.81986HD

    A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

    The Rose King
  • 1980
    Palermo or Wolfsburg

    Palermo or Wolfsburg

    Palermo or Wolfsburg

    5.81980HD

    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 throu...

    Palermo or Wolfsburg
  • 1972
    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk

    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk

    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk

    01972HD

    Grotesk - Burlesk - Pittoresk
  • 1972
    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus

    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus

    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus

    01972HD

    Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".

    Was die Rechte nicht sieht, kommt erst recht aus dem Ohr heraus
  • 1971
    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    71971HD

    Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several e...

    Macbeth
  • 1974
    The Black Angel

    The Black Angel

    The Black Angel

    61974HD

    Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one...

    The Black Angel
  • 1975
    Joan's Dream

    Joan's Dream

    Joan's Dream

    01975HD

    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 o...

    Joan's Dream