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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Character:
MOVIE • 2024
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2020
Photographer "Eise"
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2019
Fassbinder
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2014
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2012
My Name Is Not Ali
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2011
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2010
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2008
Back to Room 666
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2008
Atlètic Club Banyoles
Character: self
MOVIE • 2007
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Character: Self (archive footage)
TV • 2006
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2005
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2002
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 1992
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1987
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Character: Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
MOVIE • 1984
The Wizard of Babylon
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1982
Crew
Crew Credits
Peter von Kant
Role: Original Story
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Frogman Katzelmacher
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2013
Garbage, the City and Death
Role: Theatre Play
MOVIE • 2012
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2008
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2000
Querelle
Role: Editor
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Querelle
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1982
Querelle
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1982
Veronika Voss
Role: Director
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Veronika Voss
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1982
Veronika Voss
Role: Co-Producer
MOVIE • 1982
Lola
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1981
Lola
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1981
Lola
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 1981
Theater in Trance
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1981
Theater in Trance
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1981
Lola
Role: Line Producer
MOVIE • 1981
Lili Marleen
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1981
Lili Marleen
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 1981
Lili Marleen
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1981