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Margit Carstensen is a Actor Allemande born on 29 february 1940 at Kiel (German)

Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen
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Birth name Margit Carstensen
Nationality German
Birth 29 february 1940 at Kiel (German)
Death 1 june 2023 (at 83 years)

Margit Carstensen (born 29 February 1940) is a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Biography

Pendant toutes les années 1970, elle fut pour le cinéma et la télévision allemande l'une des actrices de prédilection de Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Filmography of Margit Carstensen (23 films)

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Actress

Agnes and His Brothers, 1h55
Directed by Oskar Roehler
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling, Herbert Knaup, Vadim Glowna, Margit Carstensen
Roles Roxy
Rating65% 3.2938753.2938753.2938753.2938753.293875
Three very different siblings: Hans-Jörg, a librarian who is a sex addict; Werner, a politician in a troubled marriage with a son who enjoys discrediting his father; Martin, who is now Agnes after having a gender-reassignment operation. Agnes works as a dancer and is suffering from unrequited love.
Sun Alley
Sun Alley (1999)
, 1h30
Origin German
Genres Comedy
Actors Alexander Beyer, Katharina Thalbach, Robert Stadlober, Henry Hübchen, Ignaz Kirchner, Detlev Buck
Roles Direktorin
Rating67% 3.398983.398983.398983.398983.39898
Michael (or 'Micha') is a 17-year-old growing up in communist East Germany (GDR) in the 1970s. He spends his time with his friends listening to banned pop music, partying and trying to win over the heart of Miriam, who is dating a West Berlin boy. Over the course of the movie his best friend Mario, falls for an existentialist, gets kicked out of school and subsequently discovers he is going to be a father. The closing of the movie upsets Micha's thus far idealistic life, as Mario sells out his ideals by signing up for military service to support his girlfriend and the child. Furthermore, his young blonde friend, Wuschel, is shot by a GDR guard, but survives, thanks to The Rolling Stones double album Exile on Main St. in which the bullet has lodged. The young boy is devastated, however, prominently displaying the importance of pop music in their lives.
Angry Harvest, 1h45
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus, Tilly Lauenstein, Margit Carstensen
Roles Eugenia
Rating70% 3.5391053.5391053.5391053.5391053.539105
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy.
The Roaring Fifties, 2h6
Directed by Peter Zadek
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Boy Gobert, Peter Kern, Christine Kaufmann, Sunnyi Melles, Beatrice Richter, Eva Mattes
Roles Sekretärin
Rating54% 2.733762.733762.733762.733762.73376
La Seconde Guerre mondiale est finie. Jakob Formann, ancien prisonnier de guerre, rentre chez lui. À Linz, il trouve du travail comme interprète pour l'armée américaine. Il se procure 40 000 œufs auprès des Américains et fonde un élevage de poulets. La ferme qu'il acquiert a appartenu à Heinrich Himmler. Le miracle économique de Jakob Formann commence. Il devient un homme d'affaires de la jeune République fédérale. Il acquiert des sociétés de construction et d'édition. Formann mène une vie de luxe. Mais le premier choc pétrolier de 1973 met fin à l'ascension du petit-bourgeois. Formann vend sa firme à un consortium de banques. Mais il n'est pas malheureux. Il prend sa retraite en compagnie de sa compagne Julia.
Liebeskonzil
Directed by Werner Schroeter
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on plays
Actors Antonio Salines, Magdalena Montezuma, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen
Roles Staatsanwältin
Rating67% 3.3693753.3693753.3693753.3693753.369375
Dieu et la Vierge Marie, écoeurés par la débauche humaine, demandent au Malin de leur prêter main forte pour punir les corps tout en sauvant les âmes...
Possession
Possession (1981)
, 2h4
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Political films
Actors Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Shaun Lawton
Roles Margit Gluckmeister
Rating73% 3.6501753.6501753.6501753.6501753.650175
Mark (Sam Neill) is a spy returning home from an espionage mission (the nature of this mission is vague, but it involves long trips abroad, cash stuffed into briefcases, and vials of secret liquids) to find that his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), wants a divorce. She won't say why, but insists it's not because she's found someone else.
Berlin Alexanderplatz (miniseries), 14h54
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Erotic thriller films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Bata Kameni, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gottfried John, Karin Baal
Roles Sekretärin
Rating83% 4.193654.193654.193654.193654.19365
1: The Punishment Begins Berlin, 1928. Franz Biberkopf is released after serving four years in Tegel prison for killing his girlfriend Ida. After settling into his old apartment he visits Minna, Ida’s sister. Minna succumbs to his forceful advances. In a flashback we see Franz kill Ida with a cream whip after correctly suspecting she was about to leave him. Franz later runs into his old friend Meck and has a drink with him in Max’s bar, a local place. There he meets Lina Przybilla, a young Polish woman, who moves in with him. He receives notification from the Berlin Police that he is barred from living in certain Berlin districts and surrounding municipalities, under the threat of a fine or imprisonment, Biberkopf places himself under the supervision of a charity called Prisoners' Aid, to which he must report once a month, and remain in employment. By doing this, he is able to remain in Berlin.
The Third Generation, 1h45
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Bulle Ogier, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann
Roles Petra Vielhaber
Rating67% 3.3936653.3936653.3936653.3936653.393665
P.J. Lurz, an industrialist with an office in a Berlin high-rise, informs his American headquarters that the company has difficulty selling its security-related computer systems to the West German government in Bonn. Nevertheless Lurz has hatched a secret plan to boost sales. Meanwhile Susanne, Lurz’s secretary, receives a phone call with the message: The world as will and idea. This is a code phrase among a secret group of thirty-something middle-class leftists and would-be terrorists to which she belongs. The phrase has been taken from the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation. With these words, Susanne sets an ambiguous covert plot into motion, alerting the members of the terrorist cell of an upcoming meeting. They are: August Brem, the ringleader; Susanne's composer husband Edgar; feminist history professor Hilde Krieger; Petra Vielhabor, a housewife who is constantly arguing with her banker husband Hans; and Rudolf Mann, a clerk in a record store.
Women in New York, 1h51
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Eva Mattes, Margit Carstensen, Barbara Sukowa, Gisela Uhlen, Irm Hermann, Doris Schade
Roles Sylvia Fowler
Rating68% 3.423773.423773.423773.423773.42377
À Manhattan dans les années 1930, un groupe d’amies se retrouve lors de soirées, de présentations de mode, chez le coiffeur, dans une salle de gymnastique… Elles y parlent surtout de leurs maris et compagnons pour qui elles vivent. C’est donc un drame lorsque l’une d’elles apprend que son époux a une maîtresse. Fassbinder a mis en scène en 1976 au Schauspielhaus de Hambourg la pièce à succès que la future politicienne Claire Boothe Luce écrivit en 1936. Il l’a ensuite adaptée et filmée en collaboration avec son chef-opérateur Michael Ballhaus.
Chinese Roulette, 1h36
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, Anna Karina, Brigitte Mira, Macha Méril, Alexander Allerson
Roles Ariane Christ
Rating71% 3.59783.59783.59783.59783.5978
Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, are packing before going off for the weekend, which each intends to spend abroad. While they are away their twelve-year-old daughter Angela, who is disabled and walks with crutches, has to remain home under the care of her governess, Traunitz. Actually, the couple have lied about their travel intentions. Convinced that his wife and daughter will be elsewhere, Gerhard takes his longtime mistress Irene Cartis — a French hairdresser — on a weekend tryst to the family's country house.
Satan’s Brew, 1h52
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers
Actors Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Ulli Lommel
Roles Andree
Rating66% 3.3466353.3466353.3466353.3466353.346635
Walter Kranz (Kurt Raab), a former revolutionary poet who attempts to base his life on that of Stefan George is lost for new ideas and penniless. Fortunately he can obtain a cheque from nymphomaniac Irmgart von Witzleben (Katharine Buchhammer) who wants to be threatened by a gun. Walter fires and disappears. Some more obscure things happen but in the end everybody is back on stage.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, 1h43
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Gottfried John
Roles Frau Thälmann
Rating74% 3.7458353.7458353.7458353.7458353.745835
Emma Küsters (Mira), a working-class woman, lives in Frankfurt with her son and daughter-in-law. While she is doing outreach work assembling electric plugs, Frau Küsters learns that her husband Hermann (a tire-factory worker for twenty years) has killed his supervisor and then committed suicide. It later becomes apparent that Mr. Küsters had become temporarily insane after hearing layoff announcements.
Fear of Fear, 1h28
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres Drama
Actors Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Armin Meier, Kurt Raab, Adrian Hoven
Roles Margot
Rating73% 3.690963.690963.690963.690963.69096
Une jeune mère de famille, Margot, se retrouve doublement isolée par sa dépression et l'état d'angoisse qui l'accompagne, et un entourage qui ne la comprend pas.
Martha
Martha (1974)
, 1h56
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Ingrid Caven, Peter Chatel, Kurt Raab
Roles Martha
Rating74% 3.742523.742523.742523.742523.74252
Martha Heyer, a virginal 31 years old librarian, is on vacation in Rome with her domineering unloving father. He is a fastidious man who refuses to be touched. At their first stop while touring the city, the Spanish Steps, the father suffers a heart attack dying in Martha’s arms. Martha soon discovers that her purse, containing all of her money, has been stolen in the confusion. She reaches for help at the German embassy and phones her mother giving her the bad news. Leaving the embassy, Martha crosses the path of a gentleman, who catches her eye – and she his. They are mutually mesmerized but keep going their own ways.