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Little Mother

Radley Metzger

In this sexy tale of intrigue and ruthless ambition, Metzger fictionalizes the real-life saga of Evita Perón, seven years ahead of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical.

DIRECTOR
Radley Metzger
YEAR
1971
COUNTRY
West Germany / USA / Yugoslavia
RUNTIME
90 minutes
FORMAT
35mm
START DATE
August 13, 2014

In a major departure, Metzger fictionalizes the real-life saga of Evita Perón, seven years ahead of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. In this sexy tale of intrigue and ruthless ambition, a series of flashbacks detail the rise to power of third-rate actress Marina (Christiane Krüger), who marries South American dictator Colonel Pinares (Siegfried Rauch) and successfully cultivates a mass cult of personality around her persona as the nation’s “Little Mother”—but her Machiavellian schemes don’t end there…

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