Known For
Directing
Born
May 31, 1945
Died
Jun 10, 1982
Place of Birth
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Credits
115 titles
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Biography
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature-length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays. He had tortured, personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity. Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.
Known For
Filmography
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Peter von Kant
Original Story
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
Photographer "Eise"
Self
A German Youth
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
Frogman Katzelmacher
Writer
Garbage, the City and Death
Theatre Play
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Self (archive footage)
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Self (archive footage)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (archive footage)
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Writer
Atlètic Club Banyoles
self
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder's Women
Self (Archive footage)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Writer
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self (archive footage)
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Self
Room 666
Self
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
Querelle
Editor
The Wizard of Babylon
Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Self
Kamikaze '89
Police Lieutenant Jansen
Veronika Voss
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Lola
Director
Theater in Trance
Director
Polnischer Sommer
Babiuch
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self
Lili Marleen
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Self
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Self
The Third Generation
Director
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Peddler
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
NDR Talk Show
Self
In a Year with 13 Moons
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spiel der Verlierer
Producer
Despair
Director
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Self
Little Godard
Second Director
Germany in Autumn
Self (uncredited)