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 maintained a frenetic pace in filmmaking. 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; and thirty-six acting roles in his own and others’ films. He also worked as an actor (film and theater), author, cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theater manager. Underlying Fassbinder's work was a desire to provoke and disturb. His phenomenal creative energy, when working, coexisted with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as being its central figure. 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.
Movie | Fassbinder: Love Without Demands | Self (archive footage) | 2015-02-07 |
Movie | Fassbinder | Self (archive footage) | 2015-04-30 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun | Self (archive footage) | 2012-06-12 |
Movie | My Name Is Not Ali | Self (archive footage) | 2011-11-07 |
Movie | Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense | Self (archive footage) | 2010-09-02 |
Movie | Back to Room 666 | Self (archive footage) | 2008-02-02 |
Movie | Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers | Self (archive footage) | 2008-02-11 |
Series | Filmlegenden. Deutsch | Self (archive footage) | 2006-01-14 |
Movie | Filmlegenden. Deutsch | Self (archive footage) | 2005-06-26 |
Movie | Fassbinder in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2002-07-02 |
Movie | I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me | Self (archive footage) | 1992-06-11 |
Movie | Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk | Self | 1987-01-18 |
Movie | Veronika Voss | Kinobesucher (uncredited) | 1982-05-13 |
Movie | Room 666 | Self | 1982-06-01 |
Movie | Kamikaze 1989 | Police Lieutenant Jansen | 1982-07-16 |
Movie | Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works | Self | 1982-07-25 |
Movie | Lili Marleen | Günther Weissenborn (uncredited) | 1981-01-14 |
Movie | Polnischer Sommer | Babiuch | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' | Self | 1980-01-01 |
Series | NDR Talk Show | Unknown | 1979-02-09 |
Movie | Bourbon Street Blues | Writer | 1979-02-22 |
Movie | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Peddler | 1979-03-23 |
Movie | Germany in Autumn | Self (uncredited) | 1978-03-03 |
Movie | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 | Self | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | Self | 1976-12-02 |
Movie | Shadow of Angels | Raoul | 1976-09-03 |
Movie | Die Wohngenossin | 1975-05-29 | |
Movie | Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume | Self | 1975-01-01 |
Movie | Fox and His Friends | Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf | 1975-06-06 |
Movie | 1 Berlin-Harlem | Self | 1974-01-01 |
Series | Am laufenden Band | Gast | 1974-04-27 |
Movie | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Eugen | 1974-06-05 |
Movie | Effi Briest | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-06-20 |
Movie | Tenderness of the Wolves | Wittowski | 1973-07-12 |
Movie | Bremen Freedom | Rumpf | 1972-11-12 |
Movie | The Merchant of Four Seasons | Zucker | 1972-02-10 |
Movie | The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Bauer | 1971-04-14 |
Movie | Haytabo | Bote des Professors | 1971-01-01 |
Series | Dalli Dalli | Unknown | 1971-05-13 |
Movie | Rio das Mortes | Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited) | 1971-02-15 |
Movie | Supergirl | Man in Front of Shop Window | 1971-05-14 |
Movie | Beware of a Holy Whore | Sascha | 1971-08-28 |
Movie | Whity | Saloon guest (uncredited) | 1971-06-02 |
Movie | Mathias Kneißl | Flecklbauer | 1971-05-27 |
Movie | Love Is Colder Than Death | Franz | 1970-01-16 |
Movie | Gods of the Plague | Pornokunde | 1970-07-24 |
Movie | Baal | Baal | 1970-01-07 |
Movie | The American Soldier | Franz Walsch (uncredited) | 1970-10-09 |
Movie | The Niklashausen Journey | Schwarzer Mönch | 1970-10-26 |
Movie | Frei bis zum nächsten Mal | Mechaniker | 1969-07-22 |
Movie | Tonys Freunde | Mallard | 1969-07-09 |
Movie | Al Capone im deutschen Wald | Heini | 1969-10-22 |
Movie | Katzelmacher | Jorgos | 1969-10-07 |
Movie | Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt | Soldier | 1968-01-05 |
Movie | The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp | the pimp | 1968-10-10 |
Movie | The City Tramp | Man #1 on Toilet | 1966-01-01 |
Movie | The Little Chaos | Franz | 1966-12-02 |
Series | Stars in der Manege | Unknown | 1959-04-11 |