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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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.


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Born:
May 31, 1945 In Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Movie/TV Credits:
56
First Appeared:
In the movie The City Tramp 1966-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner 2021-02-24
Known For
Poster of The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Poster of The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Poster of Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Filmography
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 1972-02-10
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