Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Born
May 31, 1945
Died
June 10, 1982 (37 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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.
Known For
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
2020
Photographer "Eise"
Self
2019
Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Self (archive footage)
2012
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
2011
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Self (archive footage)
2010
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (archive footage)
2008
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
2008
Atlètic Club Banyoles
self
2007
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2006
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Self
2005
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2002
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self (archive footage)
1992
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Self
1987
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
1984
The Wizard of Babylon
Self
1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Self
1982
Kamikaze '89
Police Lieutenant Jansen
1982
Room 666
Self
1982
Veronika Voss
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
1982
Polnischer Sommer
Babiuch
1981
Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self
1981
Lili Marleen
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
1981
Berlin Alexanderplatz
uncredited · (14 episodes)
1980
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Self
1980
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Self
1980
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Peddler
1979
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
1979
NDR Talk Show
Self · (1 episode)
1979
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Self
1978
Little Godard
Second Director
1978
Germany in Autumn
Self (uncredited)
1978
Biographies
Self · (1 episode)
1978
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976
Shadow of Angels
Raoul
1976
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
1976
Fox and His Friends
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
1975
Die Wohngenossin
1975
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Self
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
1974
Effi Briest
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1974
Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Eugen
1974
1 Berlin-Harlem
Self
1974
Tenderness of the Wolves
Wittowski
1973
Je später der Abend
Self · (1 episode)
1973
Bremen Freedom
Rumpf
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Zucker
1972
The Ancestress
Jaromir
1971
Beware of a Holy Whore
Sascha
1971
Whity
Saloon guest (uncredited)
1971
Mathias Kneißl
Flecklbauer
1971
Supergirl
Man in Front of Shop Window
1971
Dalli Dalli
Self · (1 episode)
1971
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Bauer
1971
Rio das Mortes
Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
1971
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Self
1971
Haytabo
Bote des Professors
1971
The Niklashausen Journey
Schwarzer Mönch
1970
The American Soldier
Franz Walsch (uncredited)
1970
Gods of the Plague
Pornokunde
1970
End of the Commune?
Self (uncredited)
1970
Love Is Colder Than Death
Franz
1970
Baal
Baal
1970
Katzelmacher
Jorgos
1969
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
Heini
1969
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
Mechaniker
1969
Tonys Freunde
Mallard
1969
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
the pimp
1968
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Soldier
1968
The Little Chaos
Franz
1966
The City Tramp
Man #1 on Toilet
1966
aspekte
Self · (1 episode)
1965
Grimme Awards Ceremony
Self · (1 episode)
1964
Stars in the Ring
Self · (1 episode)
1959
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self · (1 episode)
1951