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
Plot 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...
7.5
172 votes
7.5
172 votes
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972 · Movie · 124 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast Margit Carstensen · Hanna Schygulla · Irm Hermann · Eva Mattes
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast Brigitte Mira · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Karlheinz Böhm
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
6.2
333 votes
6.2
333 votes
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ulli Lommel
Cast Kurt Raab · Jeff Roden · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven
Plot 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...
5.9
66 votes
5.9
66 votes
The Niklashausen Journey
1970 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler
Cast Michael König · Hanna Schygulla · Margit Carstensen · Michael Gordon
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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,...
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Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland
1992 · Movie · 79 min. · Germany
Direction Christoph Schlingensief
Cast Margit Carstensen · Peter Kern · Sussane Bredehoft · Alfred Edel
Plot 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...
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Council of Love
1982 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Werner Schroeter
Cast Antonio Salines · Magdalena Montezuma · Kurt Raab · Agnès Nobecourt
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The 120 days of Bottrop
1997 · Movie · 60 min. · Germany
Direction Christoph Schlingensief
Cast Margit Carstensen · Irm Hermann · Volker Spengler · Udo Kier
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Gesche's Poison
1997 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany
Direction Walburg von Waldenfels
Cast Geno Lechner · Antje Westermann · Stefan Kurt · Margit Carstensen
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Liebe ist besser als Krieg - Erotische Lyrik und lose Lieder aus drei Jahrtausenden (TV)
1965 · Movie · min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Marcus Scholz
Cast Kathia Breuer · Margit Carstensen · Siegfried Graw · Hans Haider
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