Movies by Magdalena Montezuma

Ticket of No Return

Ticket of No Return

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

Day of the Idiots

Day of the Idiots

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

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

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. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.

Macumba

Macumba

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 conventionalities.

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

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

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