
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Born May 31, 1945 · Bad 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.
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In a Year with 13 Moons

Katzelmacher

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Lili Marleen

Fassbinder's Women

My Name Is Not Ali

Veronika Voss

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

Germany in Autumn

Tenderness of the Wolves

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Effi Briest

Haytabo

Fox and His Friends

Room 666

The City Tramp

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

Bourbon Street Blues

End of the Commune?

Love Is Colder Than Death

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

Beware of a Holy Whore

The Little Chaos

Gods of the Plague

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

Kamikaze '89

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

Whity

Supergirl

The American Soldier

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

The Niklashausen Journey

Shadow of Angels

Baal

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

Fassbinder in Hollywood

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rio das Mortes

A German Youth

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

Mathias Kneißl

1 Berlin-Harlem

Bremen Freedom

Fassbinder

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

Photographer "Eise"

Adolf and Marlene

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

The Ancestress

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder

Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

The Wizard of Babylon

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun








