Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Known For
Directing
Born
1945-05-31 in Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Died
1982-06-10
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.
Most Known For
NDR Talk Show
as Self
Grimme Award
as Self
Spécial cinéma
as Self
Dalli Dalli
as Self
German Film Award
as Self
Stars in the Ring
as Self
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
aspekte
as Self
Katzelmacher
as Jorgos
Am laufenden Band
as Self - Guest
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
Je später der Abend
as Self
Fox and His Friends
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Peddler
Baal
as Baal
Lili Marleen
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Eugen
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
as Self (archive footage)
Whity
as Saloon guest (uncredited)
Haytabo
as Bote des Professors