Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Directing
- May 31, 1945 · Bad Wörishofen, Germany
- June 10, 1982
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 · Story
- Wim Wenders, Desperado · Self
- Photographer "Eise" · Self
- A German Youth · Self
- Fassbinder · Self
- Fassbinder: Love Without Demands · Self
- Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance · Self
- Frogman Katzelmacher · Writer
- Garbage, the City and Death · Theatre Play
- Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun · Self
- My Name Is Not Ali · Self
- Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense · Self
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers · Self
- Back to Room 666 · Self
- The Marriage of Maria Braun · Writer
- Atlètic Club Banyoles · Self
- Filmlegenden. Deutsch · Self
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 · Self
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch · Self
- Fassbinder in Hollywood · Self
- Fassbinder's Women · Self
- Water Drops on Burning Rocks · Writer
- I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me · Self
- Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk · Self
- Room 666 · Self
- The Last Trip to Harrisburg · Voice of Man and Woman in Train (Voice)
- Querelle · Editing, Screenplay
- The Wizard of Babylon · Self
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works · Self
- Kamikaze '89 · Police Lieutenant Jansen
- Veronika Voss · Kinobesucher (uncredited), Director
- Lola · Screenplay, Director
- Theater in Trance · Director, Writer
- Polnischer Sommer · Babiuch
- Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Self
- Lili Marleen · Günther Weissenborn (uncredited), Editing
- Berlin Alexanderplatz · Narrator (voice, uncredited), Writer
- Douglas Sirk: Über Stars · Self
- Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' · Self
- The Third Generation · Director, Producer
- The Marriage of Maria Braun · Peddler, Director
- Bourbon Street Blues · Writer
- NDR Talk Show · Self
- In a Year with 13 Moons · Self, Director
- Spiel der Verlierer · Producer, Editing
- Despair · Director, Editing
- Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder · Self
- Little Godard · Second Director
- Germany in Autumn · Self, Director
- Biographies · Self
- The Stationmaster’s Wife · Director, Writer
- Women in New York · Director
- Adolf and Marlene · Hermann, Producer
- Chinese Roulette · Writer, Director
- Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema · Self
- Fear of Fear · Director, Writer
- The American Soldier · Franz Walsch (uncredited), Director
- Satan’s Brew · Director, Writer
- Shadow of Angels · Raoul, Theatre Play
- I Only Want You to Love Me · Writer, Director
- The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me · Self
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven · Director, Writer
- Fox and His Friends · Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf, Producer
- Die Wohngenossin
- Like a Bird on a Wire · Director, Writer
- Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume · Self
- Spécial cinéma · Self
- La Paloma · Writer
- Effi Briest · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay
- Martha · Director, Screenplay
- Am laufenden Band · Self
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul · Eugen, Music
- Nora Helmer · Director
- 1 Berlin-Harlem · Self
- World on a Wire · Director, Writer
- Tenderness of the Wolves · Wittowski, Producer
- Je später der Abend · Self
- Jail Bait · Writer, Screenplay
- Bremen Freedom · Rumpf, Director