Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 31, 1945
- Died
- June 10, 1982 (aged 37)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Veronika Voss
Movie · Director
Querelle
Movie · Director
Lili Marleen
Movie · Director
Lola
Movie · Director
Theater in Trance
Movie · Director
Berlin Alexanderplatz
TV · Director · 14 eps
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie · Director
The Third Generation
Movie · Director
Germany in Autumn
Movie · Director
In a Year with 13 Moons
Movie · Director
Despair
Movie · Director
Chinese Roulette
Movie · Director
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Movie · Director
Women in New York
Movie · Director
Satan’s Brew
Movie · Director
Fear of Fear
Movie · Director
The American Soldier
Movie · Director
I Only Want You to Love Me
Movie · Director
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Movie · Director
Fox and His Friends
Movie · Director
Like a Bird on a Wire
Movie · Director
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Movie · Director
Martha
Movie · Director
Effi Briest
Movie · Director
Nora Helmer
Movie · Director
Jail Bait
Movie · Director
World on a Wire
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Movie · Director
Bremen Freedom
Movie · Director
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
TV · Director · 5 eps
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Movie · Director
Beware of a Holy Whore
Movie · Director
Whity
Movie · Director
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Movie · Director
Rio das Mortes
Movie · Director
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Movie · Director
Gods of the Plague
Movie · Director
Love Is Colder Than Death
Movie · Director
The Niklashausen Journey
Movie · Director
The Coffee House
Movie · Director
Katzelmacher
Movie · Director
Ein Platz für Günter
Movie · Assistant Director
The City Tramp
Movie · Director
The Little Chaos
Movie · Director
This Night
Movie · Director