Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Known for DirectingBorn 1945-05-31Died 1982-06-10Bad Wörishofen, Germany

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

Little Godard

Tonys Freunde

Spécial cinéma

Dalli Dalli

The Ancestress

Frei bis zum nächsten Mal

Al Capone im deutschen Wald

Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt

aspekte

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

Wim Wenders, Desperado

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

Biographies

Spiel der Verlierer

End of the Commune?

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

A German Youth

Berlin Alexanderplatz

The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

I Only Want You to Love Me

World on a Wire

Veronika Voss

Fox and His Friends

Chinese Roulette

Nora Helmer

Polnischer Sommer

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

Adolf and Marlene

Am laufenden Band

Martha

Je später der Abend

Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

Lola

Theater in Trance

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

Haytabo

Room 666

Querelle

My Name Is Not Ali

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

NDR Talk Show