Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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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Movies (101)
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Peter von Kant
2022 · Original Story
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Photographer "Eise"
2019 · Self
A German Youth
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Frogman Katzelmacher
2013 · Writer
Garbage, the City and Death
2012 · Theatre Play
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012 · Self (archive footage)
My Name Is Not Ali
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Back to Room 666
2008 · Self (archive footage)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
2008 · Writer
Atlètic Club Banyoles
2007 · self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005 · Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder's Women
2000 · Self (Archive footage)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
2000 · Writer
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992 · Self (archive footage)
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
1987 · Self
Room 666
1985 · Self
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984 · Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
Querelle
1982 · Editor, Screenplay, Director
The Wizard of Babylon
1982 · Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982 · Self
Kamikaze '89
1982 · Police Lieutenant Jansen
Veronika Voss
1982 · Kinobesucher (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
Lola
1981 · Screenplay, Director, Editor, Line Producer
Theater in Trance
1981 · Director, Writer
Polnischer Sommer
1981 · Babiuch
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981 · Self
Lili Marleen
1981 · Günther Weissenborn (uncredited), Editor, Director, Screenplay
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980 · Self
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
1980 · Self
The Third Generation
1979 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979 · Peddler, Director, Idea, Editor
Bourbon Street Blues
1979 · Writer
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Director, Art Direction, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Spiel der Verlierer
1978 · Producer, Editor
Despair
1978 · Director, Editor
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
1978 · Self
Little Godard
1978 · Second Director
Germany in Autumn
1978 · Self (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977 · Director, Writer, Editor
Women in New York
1977 · Director
Adolf and Marlene
1977 · Hermann, Producer
Chinese Roulette
1977 · Writer, Director
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976 · Self
Fear of Fear
1976 · Director, Writer
The American Soldier
1976 · Franz Walsch (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Songs
Satan’s Brew
1976 · Director, Writer
Shadow of Angels
1976 · Raoul, Theatre Play, Screenplay
I Only Want You to Love Me
1976 · Writer, Director
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976 · Self
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975 · Director, Writer
Fox and His Friends
1975 · Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf, Producer, Writer, Director
Die Wohngenossin
1975
Like a Bird on a Wire
1975 · Director, Writer
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
1975 · Self
La Paloma
1974 · Writer
Effi Briest
1974 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Producer, Director
Martha
1974 · Director, Screenplay
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · Eugen, Original Music Composer, Production Design, Producer, Director, Screenplay
Nora Helmer
1974 · Director
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974 · Self
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973 · Wittowski, Producer
Jail Bait
1973 · Writer, Screenplay, Director
Bremen Freedom
1972 · Rumpf, Director, Author
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1972 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
The Ancestress
1971 · Jaromir
The Merchant of Four Seasons
1971 · Zucker, Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer, Producer
Beware of a Holy Whore
1971 · Sascha, Director, Writer, Editor
Whity
1971 · Saloon guest (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Editor
Mathias Kneißl
1971 · Flecklbauer
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1971 · Director, Screenplay
Supergirl
1971 · Man in Front of Shop Window
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971 · Bauer
Rio das Mortes
1971 · Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited), Director, Writer, Editor
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971 · Self
Haytabo
1971 · Courier
The Niklashausen Journey
1970 · Schwarzer Mönch, Director, Writer, Editor
Gods of the Plague
1970 · Pornokunde, Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970 · Screenplay, Director, Editor
End of the Commune?
1970 · Self (uncredited)
The Coffee House
1970 · Director, Writer
Love Is Colder Than Death
1970 · Franz, Screenplay, Director, Editor
Baal
1970 · Baal
Katzelmacher
1969 · Jorgos, Screenplay, Director, Editor, Production Design, Theatre Play
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
1969 · Heini
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
1969 · Mechaniker
Tonys Freunde
1969 · Mallard
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
1968 · the pimp
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
1968 · Soldier
The Little Chaos
1966 · Franz, Director, Writer
This Night
1966 · Cinematography, Director, Writer
The City Tramp
1966 · Man #1 on Toilet, Director, Writer, Editor
Ein Platz für Günter
1966 · Assistant Director
TV shows (14)
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980 · Narrator (voice, uncredited), Writer, Director, Creator
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Self
Biographies
1978 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Am laufenden Band
1974 · Self - Guest
World on a Wire
1973 · Director, Writer, Creator
Je später der Abend
1973 · Self
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
1972 · Director, Writer, Producer, Creator
Dalli Dalli
1971 · Self
aspekte
1965 · Self
Grimme Award
1964 · Self
Stars in der Manege
1959 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self