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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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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…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Filmography
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)
Photographer "Eise"
as Self
A German Youth
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Self (archive footage)
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
as Self (archive footage)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Atlètic Club Banyoles
as self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
as Self
No Poster
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder's Women
as Self (Archive footage)
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
as Self
Room 666
as Self
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
The Wizard of Babylon
as Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
as Self
Kamikaze '89
as Police Lieutenant Jansen
Veronika Voss
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
No Poster
Polnischer Sommer
as Babiuch
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Self
Lili Marleen
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
No Poster
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
as Self
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
as Self
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Peddler
Bourbon Street Blues
as Writer
In a Year with 13 Moons
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
as Self
No Poster
Little Godard
as Second Director
Germany in Autumn
as Self (uncredited)
Adolf and Marlene
as Hermann
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
The American Soldier
as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
Shadow of Angels
as Raoul
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
as Self
Fox and His Friends
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
No Poster
Die Wohngenossin
No Poster
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
as Self
Effi Briest
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Eugen
1 Berlin-Harlem
as Self
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Wittowski
Bremen Freedom
as Rumpf
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Zucker
The Ancestress
as Jaromir
Beware of a Holy Whore
as Sascha
Whity
as Saloon guest (uncredited)
Mathias Kneißl
as Flecklbauer
Supergirl
as Man in Front of Shop Window
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
as Bauer
Rio das Mortes
as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
No Poster
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
as Self
Haytabo
as Courier
The Niklashausen Journey
as Schwarzer Mönch
Gods of the Plague
as Pornokunde
End of the Commune?
as Self (uncredited)
Love Is Colder Than Death
as Franz
Baal
as Baal
Katzelmacher
as Jorgos
No Poster
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
as Heini
No Poster
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
as Mechaniker
No Poster
Tonys Freunde
as Mallard
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
as the pimp
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
as Soldier
The Little Chaos
as Franz
The City Tramp
as Man #1 on Toilet