Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder maintained a frenetic pace in filmmaking. In a professional career that lasted 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; and thirty-six acting roles in his own and others’ films. He also worked as an actor (film and theater), author, cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theater manager. Underlying Fassbinder's work was a desire to provoke and disturb. His phenomenal creative energy, when working, coexisted with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as being its central figure. 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.
Movie | A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner | Self (archive footage) | 2021-02-24 |
Movie | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self (archive footage) | 2020-07-16 |
Movie | Fassbinder: Love Without Demands | Self (archive footage) | 2015-02-07 |
Movie | Fassbinder | Self (archive footage) | 2015-04-30 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun | Self (archive footage) | 2012-06-12 |
Movie | My Name Is Not Ali | Self (archive footage) | 2011-11-07 |
Movie | Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense | Self (archive footage) | 2010-09-02 |
Movie | Back to Room 666 | Self (archive footage) | 2008-02-02 |
Movie | Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers | Self (archive footage) | 2008-02-11 |
Series | Filmlegenden. Deutsch | Self (archive footage) | 2006-01-14 |
Movie | Filmlegenden. Deutsch | Self (archive footage) | 2005-06-26 |
Movie | Fassbinder in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2002-07-02 |
Movie | I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me | Self (archive footage) | 1992-06-11 |
Movie | Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk | Self | 1987-01-18 |
Movie | Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works | Self | 1982-07-25 |
Movie | Room 666 | Self | 1982-06-01 |
Movie | Veronika Voss | Kinobesucher (uncredited) | 1982-05-13 |
Movie | Kamikaze 1989 | Police Lieutenant Jansen | 1982-07-16 |
Movie | Lili Marleen | Günther Weissenborn (uncredited) | 1981-01-14 |
Movie | Polnischer Sommer | Babiuch | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | Douglas Sirk: Über Stars | Self | 1980-04-29 |
Series | Berlin Alexanderplatz | uncredited | 1980-10-12 |
Movie | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Peddler | 1979-03-23 |
Movie | Bourbon Street Blues | Writer | 1979-02-22 |
Movie | Germany in Autumn | Self (uncredited) | 1978-03-03 |
Movie | Little Godard | Second Director | 1978-06-08 |
Movie | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 | Self | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | Shadow of Angels | Raoul | 1976-09-03 |
Movie | Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | Self | 1976-12-02 |
Movie | Fox and His Friends | Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf | 1975-06-06 |
Movie | Die Wohngenossin | 1975-05-29 | |
Movie | 1 Berlin-Harlem | Self | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | Effi Briest | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-06-20 |
Movie | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Eugen | 1974-03-05 |
Movie | Tenderness of the Wolves | Wittowski | 1973-07-12 |
Movie | Bremen Freedom | Rumpf | 1972-11-12 |
Movie | The Merchant of Four Seasons | Zucker | 1972-03-10 |
Movie | Rio das Mortes | Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited) | 1971-02-15 |
Movie | Haytabo | Bote des Professors | 1971-01-01 |
Movie | The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Bauer | 1971-04-14 |
Movie | Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 | Self | 1971-01-27 |
Movie | Supergirl | Man in Front of Shop Window | 1971-05-14 |
Movie | Beware of a Holy Whore | Sascha | 1971-08-28 |
Movie | Whity | Saloon guest (uncredited) | 1971-06-02 |
Movie | Love Is Colder Than Death | Franz | 1970-01-16 |
Movie | Gods of the Plague | Pornokunde | 1970-07-24 |
Movie | Baal | Baal | 1970-01-07 |
Movie | The American Soldier | Franz Walsch (uncredited) | 1970-10-09 |
Movie | The Niklashausen Journey | Schwarzer Mönch | 1970-10-26 |
Movie | Katzelmacher | Jorgos | 1969-10-07 |
Movie | Frei bis zum nächsten Mal | Mechaniker | 1969-07-22 |
Movie | Al Capone im deutschen Wald | Heini | 1969-10-22 |
Movie | Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt | Soldier | 1968-01-05 |
Movie | The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp | the pimp | 1968-10-10 |
Movie | The City Tramp | Man #1 on Toilet | 1966-01-01 |
Movie | The Little Chaos | Franz | 1966-12-02 |