Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Directing
Born: 1945-05-31 in Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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
NDR Talk Show
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
Dalli Dalli
Self
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Stars in der Manege
Self
Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Eugen
Lili Marleen
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Peddler
Germany in Autumn
Self (uncredited)
Veronika Voss
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Katzelmacher
Jorgos
In a Year with 13 Moons
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Zucker
Photographer "Eise"
Self
Fox and His Friends
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Effi Briest
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
Haytabo
Courier
Gods of the Plague
Pornokunde
Room 666
Self
Die Wohngenossin
Supergirl
Man in Front of Shop Window
Baal
Baal
Tenderness of the Wolves
Wittowski
Kamikaze '89
Police Lieutenant Jansen
Love Is Colder Than Death
Franz
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
The American Soldier
Franz Walsch (uncredited)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Self
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
Whity
Saloon guest (uncredited)