Magdalena Montezuma
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Magdalena Montezuma was a German experimental film actress. A muse to New German Cinema filmmaker, Werner Schroeter, Montezuma drifted through the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, Rosa Von Praunhiem and Frank Ripploh. She played nurses, transsexuals, kings, party guests, mothers and baroque divas. With a striking face to match her flamboyant name, Montezuma achieved a certain, cultish notoriety until her untimely death from cancer at age 41. Schroeter hastily began production on his film The Rose King for the actress, shooting in her final months, as Montezuma longed to capture this energy, "to die on the
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1. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Rating: | 39 Watched |

2. Taxi to the Toilet (1981)
Rating: | 24 Watched |

3. The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
Rating: | 17 Watched |

4. The Death of Maria Malibran (1972) (1972)
Rating: | 7 Watched |

5. A Woman in Flames (1983)
Rating: | 7 Watched |
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1. The Rose King (1986)
Rating: | 6 Watched |