Margit Carstensen

Highlighted works

• Die BITTEREN TRÄNEN DER PETRA VON KANT

  A brilliant all-female cast star in this visual and verbal extravaganza about a lonely fashion designer.

• Angst vor der Angst

  Overcome by anxiety, a middle-class wife and mother struggles to conform.

• Martha

  This ruthless dissection of a marriage is like Douglas Sirk on steroids.

• Satansbraten

  Black comedy about a left-wing poet which skewers the cult of the charismatic artist.

• Chinesisches Roulette

  A bitter young girl brings her emotionally estranged parents together in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gothic psychodrama.

• Die NIKLASHAUSER FAHRT

  Fassbinder’s intriguing exploration of the arts of political mass manipulation.

• Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel

  The wife of a factory worker gone murderously berserk finds herself hounded and exploited.

• Die dritte Generation

  Colourful farce centring on a group of bourgeois self-styled terrorists.

• WELT AM DRAHT

  Fassbinder’s two-part TV sci-fi anticipates both Blade Runner and The Matrix.

• FONTANE EFFI BRIEST ODER VIELE, DIE EINE AHNUNG HABEN VON IHREN MÖGLICHKEITEN UND IHREN BEDÜRFNISSEN UND TROTZDEM DAS

  An exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontane’s 1896 novel, about a 17-year-old forced into marriage with an older man.

• ACHT STUNDEN SIND KEIN TAG

  Fassbinder’s controversial five-part TV soap opera.