Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 31, 1945
Day of Death: June 10, 1982 (37 years old)
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.
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Actor Writer
Bourbon Street Blues
Actor Peddler
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Director
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Editor
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Idea
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Director
The Third Generation
Screenplay
The Third Generation
Producer
The Third Generation
Director of Photography
The Third Generation
Camera Operator
The Third Generation
1978
Actor Self
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Actor Self (uncredited)
Germany in Autumn
Actor Second Director
Little Godard
Director
Germany in Autumn
Screenplay
Germany in Autumn
Director
Despair
Director
In a Year with 13 Moons
Art Direction
In a Year with 13 Moons
Editor
Despair
Writer
In a Year with 13 Moons
Editor
In a Year with 13 Moons
Producer
In a Year with 13 Moons
Director of Photography
In a Year with 13 Moons
Producer
Spiel der Verlierer
Editor
Spiel der Verlierer
1977
1976
Actor Raoul
Shadow of Angels
Actor Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
Actor Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Theatre Play
Shadow of Angels
Screenplay
Shadow of Angels
Director
Satan’s Brew
Writer
Satan’s Brew
Director
I Only Want You to Love Me
Writer
I Only Want You to Love Me
1975
Actor Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Fox and His Friends
Actor
Die Wohngenossin
Actor Self
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Director
Fox and His Friends
Writer
Fox and His Friends
Producer
Fox and His Friends
Director
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Writer
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Director
Fear of Fear
Writer
Fear of Fear
Director
Like a Bird on a Wire
Writer
Like a Bird on a Wire
1974
Actor Eugen
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Actor Self
1 Berlin-Harlem
Actor Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Effi Briest
Director
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Producer
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Author
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Original Music Composer
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Production Design
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Director
Effi Briest
Screenplay
Effi Briest
Producer
Effi Briest
Director
Martha
Screenplay
Martha
Director
Nora Helmer
Writer
La Paloma
1973
1972
Actor Zucker
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Actor Rumpf
Bremen Freedom
Director
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Screenplay
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Director
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Screenplay
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Director
Bremen Freedom
Author
Bremen Freedom
Original Music Composer
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Producer
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1971
Actor Sascha
Beware of a Holy Whore
Actor Jaromir
The Ancestress
Actor Self
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Actor Flecklbauer
Mathias Kneißl
Actor Man in Front of Shop Window
Supergirl
Actor Bauer
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Actor Saloon guest (uncredited)
Whity
Actor Bote des Professors
Haytabo
Actor Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
Rio das Mortes
Director
Beware of a Holy Whore
Writer
Beware of a Holy Whore
Director
Whity
Screenplay
Whity
Director
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Director
Rio das Mortes
Writer
Rio das Mortes
Screenplay
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Editor
Beware of a Holy Whore
Editor
Whity
Editor
Rio das Mortes
1970
Actor Pornokunde
Gods of the Plague
Actor Franz
Love Is Colder Than Death
Actor Franz Walsch (uncredited)
The American Soldier
Actor Baal
Baal
Actor Schwarzer Mönch
The Niklashausen Journey
Actor Self (uncredited)
End of the Commune?
Director
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Screenplay
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Editor
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Director
Gods of the Plague
Screenplay
Gods of the Plague
Editor
Gods of the Plague
Director
Love Is Colder Than Death
Screenplay
Love Is Colder Than Death
Editor
Love Is Colder Than Death
Director
The American Soldier
Writer
The American Soldier
Director
The Niklashausen Journey
Director
The Coffee House
Producer
Gods of the Plague
Producer
The American Soldier
Production Design
The American Soldier
Writer
The Coffee House
Writer
The Niklashausen Journey
Editor
The Niklashausen Journey
