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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Directing Born May 31, 1945 Bad Wörishofen, Germany 24 credits

Biography

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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Known for

Spécial cinéma

as Self

NDR Talk Show

as Self
Film

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

as Eugen
Film

The Marriage of Maria Braun

as Peddler

The War at Home

as Kinobesucher (uncredited)

Full filmography

  • Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self
  • NDR Talk Show (1979) as Self
  • Grimme Award (1964) as Self
  • German Film Award (1951) as Self
  • Dalli Dalli (1971) as Self
  • aspekte (1965) as Self
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  • Stars in the Ring (1959) as Self
  • Am laufenden Band (1974) as Self - Guest
  • Je später der Abend (1973) as Self
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) as Eugen
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) as Peddler
  • Lili Marleen (1981) as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
  • Fox and His Friends (1975) as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
  • Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2006) as Self (archive footage)
  • Veronika Voss (1982) as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
  • Effi Briest (1974) as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  • Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) as Wittowski
  • Germany in Autumn (1978) as Self (uncredited)
  • Supergirl (1971) as Man in Front of Shop Window
  • Biographies (1978) as Self
  • Room 666 (1985) as Self
  • Kamikaze '89 (1982) as Police Lieutenant Jansen
  • Gods of the Plague (1970) as Pornokunde