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Margit Carstensen

Highest Rated: 100% Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1976)

Lowest Rated: 40% Agnes and His Brothers (2004)

Birthday: Feb 29, 1940

Birthplace: Kiel, Germany

Along with the better-known Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen was a major diva of New German Cinema's most prolific and arguably most important talent, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Tall, slender and seductive, with huge, lovely eyes, Carstensen could crinkle her wide and sensuous mouth into either a delicate sneer or an arc of desperation. She acted in over a dozen Fassbinder films in the 1970s; as with much of his company, she often played people brought down low by social circumstances and their own passions. At other times, though, she played sly and slinky types, sometimes bitchy and hysterical, but almost invariably insinuating.

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Highest rated movies

100% 88% Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
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92% 73% The Third Generation
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86% 88% Martha
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85% 85% The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
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85% 78% Possession
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83% 69% Chinese Roulette
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80% 75% It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!
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75% 78% Satan's Brew
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67% 32% The Niklashausen Journey
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63% Tenderness of the Wolves
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Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, (aka DIE BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT), Margit Carstensen, 1972 THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, (aka DIE BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT), Margit Carstensen, 1972 THE THIRD GENERATION, (aka DIE DRITTE GENERATION), Margit Carstensen, Gunther Kaufmann, 1979, (c) New Yorker Films MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN, (aka MUTTER KUSTERS FAHRT ZUM HIMMEL), Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Karlheinz Bohm (aka Karl Bohm), 1975. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, (aka DIE BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT), Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, 1972 THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, 1972 THE THIRD GENERATION, (aka DIE DRITTE GENERATION), Margit Carstensen, 1979, (c) New Yorker Films View more photos

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No Score Yet 89% Finsterworld Frau Sandberg (Character) - 2013
80% 75% It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! Linda Barnes (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet It's Fine. Everything is Fine! Linda Barnes (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hands off Mississippi Unknown (Character) - 2007
40% 57% Agnes and His Brothers Roxy (Character) $2.7K 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shattered Glass Käthe (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 120 Days of Bottrop Unknown (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Terror 2000: Germany Out of Control Margret (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 17% 100 Years of Adolf Hitler Martha Goebbels (Character) - 1989
85% 78% Possession Margit Gluckmeister (Character) - 1981
92% 73% The Third Generation Petra Vielhaber (Character) - 1979
75% 78% Satan's Brew Andrea (Character) - 1976
83% 69% Chinese Roulette Ariane (Character) - 1976
100% 88% Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven Frau Thälmann (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 85% Fear of Fear Margot (Character) - 1975
86% 88% Martha Martha Salomon (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nora Helmer Nora Helmer (Character) - 1974
63% No Score Yet Tenderness of the Wolves Frau Lindner (Character) - 1973
85% 85% The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Petra von Kant (Character) - 1972
67% 32% The Niklashausen Journey Magarethe (Character) - 1970