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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Birthday: 1945-05-31 | Place of Birth: Bad Wörishofen, Germany

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 was prolific; 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. 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

as    Self (archive footage)

2019
Photographer "Eise"

as    Self

2015
Fassbinder

as    Self (archive footage)

2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

as    Self (archive footage)

2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

as    Self (archive footage)

2012
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

as    Self (archive footage)

2011
My Name Is Not Ali

as    Self (archive footage)

2010
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

as    Self (archive footage)

2008
Back to Room 666

as    Self (archive footage)

2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

as    Self (archive footage)

2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood

as    Self (archive footage)

1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

as    Self (archive footage)

1982
Veronika Voss

as    Kinobesucher (uncredited)

1982
Kamikaze 1989

as    Police Lieutenant Jansen

1982
Room 666

as    Self

1982
The Wizard of Babylon

as    Self

1979
Bourbon Street Blues

as    Writer

1978
Little Godard

as    Second Director

1977
Gods of the Plague

as    Pornokunde

1977