Magdalena Montezuma
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: January 1, 1942
Place of Birth: Würzburg, Germany
Known For
Argila
Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.
Gold Flakes
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.
World on a Wire
World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a two-part 1973 West German science fiction television serial broadcast on ARD. Shot on 16 mm film, the two-part miniseries is drected by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who co-writes the screenplay with Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3. In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr Fred Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.
Macbeth
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. As Schroeter would recall, "I arranged the Verdi music for a quartet of violin, accordion, piano and oboe, but modeled the rhythms on Argentinian tangos and boleros. The actors sang with horrifying, shrill voices.... The use of video allowed me to produce extraordinary colors.... Of all my films, Macbeth was most unwelcome: Audiences don’t like their Shakespeare to be presented in this way, but I do not differentiate between kitsch and culture...". - MoMA
The Death of Maria Malibran
A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.
Eika Katappa
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.
Neurasia
In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.
The Rose King
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
Taxi zum Klo
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. But while Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways.
Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Filmography
as Anna, The Mother
as Golem / Norn
as Bethermann
as Doppelzeugin
as Magda/Isabelle
as Orlando, als Pilger, Orlando Zyldopa, Orlando Orlanda, Orlando Capricho, Mr. Orlando, The Entertainer Mrs. Orlando
as Zigeunerin
as Nurse (as Magdalene Montezuma)
as Verteidigerin
as Soziale Frage
as Magdalena, Josette, The Angel of Death
as Party Guest
as Magdalena
as Maria Malibran
as Irm
as Herodes
as Hannas Kollegin
as Annemarie Melz
as Magdalena
as Self