Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (46)
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Peter von Kant
Original Story (Writing)
2022
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Photographer "Eise"
as Self
2019
Fassbinder
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Frogman Katzelmacher
Writer (Writing)
2013
Garbage, the City and Death
Theatre Play (Writing)
2012
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Self (archive footage)
2012
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
2008
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Writer (Writing)
2008
Atlètic Club Banyoles
as self
2007
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
as Self
2005
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Fassbinder's Women
as Self (Archive footage)
2000
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Writer (Writing)
2000
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self (archive footage)
1992
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
as Self
1987
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
1984
Querelle
Director (Directing)
1982
The Wizard of Babylon
as Self
1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
as Self
1982
Kamikaze '89
as Police Lieutenant Jansen
1982
Room 666
as Self
1982
Veronika Voss
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
1982
Lola
Director (Directing)
1981
Theater in Trance
Director (Directing)
1981
Polnischer Sommer
as Babiuch
1981
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Self
1981
Lili Marleen
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
1981
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
as Self
1980
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
as Self
1980
The Third Generation
Screenplay (Writing)
1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Peddler
1979
Bourbon Street Blues
as Writer
1979
In a Year with 13 Moons
Director (Directing)
1978
Spiel der Verlierer
Editor (Editing)
1978
Despair
Director (Directing)
1978
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
as Self
1978
Little Godard
as Second Director
1978
Germany in Autumn
as Self (uncredited)
1978
