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Margit Carstensen

Actress

Born - 29 February 1940, Kiel, Germany
Died - 1 June 2023

Full-lipped, brunette German actress of troubled features but vivid blue eyes, often seen in intense, sometimes provocative roles, and a favourite of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in several of whose films she appeared. On TV from the early 1960s, her movies include The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972), The Tenderness of the Wolves (1973), Martha (1974), Mother Kuster's Trip to Heaven (1975), Chinese Roulette (1976), Adolf and Marlene (1977), The Third Generation (1979), Possession (1981), The Roaring Fifties (1983), Angry Harvest (1985), Adolf Hitler - Last Stand in the Bunker (1989), Terror 2000 (1992), Gesches Gift (1997), Sun Alley (1999), Manila (2000), Scherbentanz (2002), Agnes and His Brothers (2004), Hands off the Mississippi (2007) and Finsterworld (2013), her last.