Magdalena Montezuma

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries...

World on a Wire

In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its lead...

Taxi zum Klo

Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets...

Rio das Mortes

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a...

Beware of a Holy Whore

Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a p...

A Woman in Flames

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl busi...

Gold Flakes

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while i...

Salome

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the...

The Rose King

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

Day of the Idiots

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

Willow Springs

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

Tally Brown, New York

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film...

Kiez

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story...

Joan's Dream

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Sain...

Freak Orlando

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montez...

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) cas...

Die Geisel

Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls and two ga...

Palermo or Wolfsburg

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Vo...

Pankow ’95

Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic proble...

Der Bomberpilot

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, ce...

The Niklashausen Journey

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medi...

Macumba

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially d...

Macbeth Oper von Rosa von Praunheim

Lady Macbeth, driven by ambition, urges her husband, Macbeth, to murder King Duncan. Macbeth becomes king but d...

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...

Exekution: A Study of Mary

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, repres...

Neurasia

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

Macbeth

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment s...

The Black Angel

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Blac...

Liebeskonzil

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbrea...

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".

Eika Katappa

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic,...

Argila

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

The Death of Maria Malibran

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

Grotesk – Burlesk – Pittoresk

Magdalena

Glutmensch

An arthouse biopic about German Romanticist and writer Friedrich Hebbel.