Cast: Margit Carstensen

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Margit Carstensen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Martha (TV)

1974 · Movie · 116 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Karlheinz Böhm · Gisela Fackeldey · Ingrid Caven

Synopsis A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Europe when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and...

7.5

172 votes

7.5

172 votes

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Karlheinz Böhm

Synopsis Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is...

7.3

667 votes

7.3

667 votes

Fear of Fear (TV)

1975 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Ulrich Faulhaber · Brigitte Mira · Irm Hermann

Synopsis Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and...

7.0

227 votes

7.0

227 votes

Chinese Roulette

1976 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Anna Karina · Margit Carstensen · Brigitte Mira · Ulli Lommel

Synopsis A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go...

6.9

575 votes

6.9

575 votes

Possession

1981 · Movie · 127 min. · France

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Sam Neill · Margit Carstensen · Heinz Bennent

Synopsis Mark returns to Berlin from a long business assignment to find that his wife Anna is leaving him for what he supposes is another man. It turns out that she leaves both her husband and her lover, Heinrich, for a...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Nora Helmer (TV)

1974 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Joachim Hansen · Barbara Valentin · Ulli Lommel

Synopsis Nora Helmer is childishly innocent, despite eight years of marriage and two children. She is protected from all responsibility and kept ignorant of even the most rudimentary knowledge of worldly affairs by her husband, Torvald, who feels that practical knowledge...

6.7

27 votes

6.7

27 votes

Fassbinder

2015 · Documentary · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Annekatrin Hendel

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Hanna Schygulla · Margit Carstensen · Irm Hermann

Synopsis A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!

2007 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Crispin Glover · David Brothers

Cast Margit Carstensen · Jami Ferrell · Lauren German · Bruce Glover

Synopsis An autobiographical, psycho-sexual, fantastical retelling of Steven C. Stewart point-of-view of life.

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

Satan's Brew

1976 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Kurt Raab · Margit Carstensen · Helen Vita · Volker Spengler

Synopsis Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and relying on the life savings of a woman...

6.2

323 votes

6.2

323 votes

Finsterworld

2013 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany

Direction Frauke Finsterwalder

Cast Johannes Krisch · Michael Maertens · Margit Carstensen · Sandra Hüller

Synopsis A number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.

6.2

50 votes

6.2

50 votes

The Third Generation

1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Volker Spengler · Eddie Constantine · Bulle Ogier

Synopsis A group of young people leads an affluent bourgeois life. Driven on by a deep, private absence of fulfilment, these terrorists come together less by political conviction than by their thirst for action and end up being used in the...

6.2

333 votes

6.2

333 votes

Direction Ulli Lommel

Cast Kurt Raab · Jeff Roden · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven

Synopsis In 1925, in Germany, Fritz Haarmann is a homosexual, thief and sneak, having a special license from the police. He sells meat in the black market. He also kills boys and young men, drinking their blood, quarter-sewing their bodies and...

5.9

66 votes

5.9

66 votes

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Michael König · Hanna Schygulla · Margit Carstensen · Michael Gordon

Synopsis Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and...

5.9

73 votes

5.9

73 votes

Agnes and His Brothers

2004 · Movie · 115 min. · Germany

Direction Oskar Roehler

Cast Martin Weiss · Moritz Bleibtreu · Herbert Knaup · Katja Riemann

Synopsis Three very different brothers, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a transsexual, works as a table dancer in a nightclub....

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Direction Christoph Schlingensief

Cast Margit Carstensen · Peter Kern · Sussane Bredehoft · Alfred Edel

Synopsis A social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this...

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