Carmen kees biography

In 2004, when we were filming the opening of the Thyssen Museum in Madrid we met the Baroness and we saw a story: ‘A woman is a slave to her biography and wants to escape’. In fact, she is now a different woman from the one people wanted to believe she was. We know she is rich, we know she is smart and ambitious, and that she has achieved all that she has by exploiting her beauty. But is this all? At sixty something, Carmen is no longer the social climber who succeeded in becoming Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. The wealth and the noble title were bestowed upon her, but becoming the important art collector that she is today is something she has achieved by herself. And this makes her a very interesting character, whom we wanted to reveal in making this film.

The story of Carmen Thyssen’s life is very much in the ‘public domain’, a product of the tabloid press. After the dead of her first husband –the American actor Lex Barker– Carmen met at the end of the seve

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