FrameThrower · Actors · Margit Carstensen
Margit Carstensen
10 films · 623 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1970–1981
Born 29 February 1940 · Kiel, Germany · died 1 June 2023
Margit Carstensen was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Carstensen was born and raised in the northern German city of Kiel. Upon graduation from the local high school in 1958, she studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. This education led to her first stage appearances in Kleve, Heilbronn, Münster, and Braunschweig. In 1965, Carstensen began a four-year engagement with the German Playhouse in Hamburg.
In 1969, she gained a local profile for her work in the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, where she first met director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 623 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1970–1981
- German Film Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 623 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Margit takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Margit takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Possession
1981 · Margit Gluckmeister
The Third Generation
1979 · Petra Vielhaber
New York, New York
1977 · Sylvia Fowler
Satan’s Brew
1976 · Andree
Chinese Roulette
1976 · Ariane Christ
Fear Of Fear
1975 · Margot
Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven
1975 · Frau Thälmann
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973 · Frau Lindner
The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant
1972 · Petra von Kant
The Niklashausen Journey
1970 · Margarete
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 623 frames from Margit Carstensen's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.