Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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.

Known For

NDR Talk Show

Spécial cinéma

Dalli Dalli

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Stars in the Ring

Am laufenden Band

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Lili Marleen

All Movies (71)

• Sukowa - Playful Like A Child2024
• Wim Wenders, Desperado2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Photographer "Eise"2019 · as Self
• A German Youth2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Fassbinder2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Fassbinder: Love Without Demands2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• My Name Is Not Ali2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Back to Room 6662008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Atlètic Club Banyoles2007 · as self
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 19772005 · as Self
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Fassbinder in Hollywood2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Fassbinder's Women2000 · as Self (Archive footage)
• I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me1992 · as Self (archive footage)
• Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk1987 · as Self
• Room 6661985 · as Self
• The Last Trip to Harrisburg1984 · as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
• The Wizard of Babylon1982 · as Self
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works1982 · as Self
• Kamikaze '891982 · as Police Lieutenant Jansen
• Veronika Voss1982 · as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
• Polnischer Sommer1981 · as Babiuch
• Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder1981 · as Self
• Lili Marleen1981 · as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
• Douglas Sirk: Über Stars1980 · as Self
• Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'1980 · as Self
• The Marriage of Maria Braun1979 · as Peddler
• Bourbon Street Blues1979 · as Writer
• Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder1978 · as Self
• Little Godard1978 · as Second Director
• Germany in Autumn1978 · as Self (uncredited)
• Adolf and Marlene1977 · as Hermann
• Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema1976 · as Self
• The American Soldier1976 · as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
• Shadow of Angels1976 · as Raoul
• The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me1976 · as Self
• Fox and His Friends1975 · as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
• Die Wohngenossin1975
• Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume1975 · as Self
• Effi Briest1974 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul1974 · as Eugen
• 1 Berlin-Harlem1974 · as Self
• Tenderness of the Wolves1973 · as Wittowski
• Bremen Freedom1972 · as Rumpf
• The Merchant of Four Seasons1972 · as Zucker
• The Ancestress1971 · as Jaromir
• Beware of a Holy Whore1971 · as Sascha
• Whity1971 · as Saloon guest (uncredited)
• Mathias Kneißl1971 · as Flecklbauer
• Supergirl1971 · as Man in Front of Shop Window
• The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach1971 · as Bauer
• Rio das Mortes1971 · as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
• Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 81971 · as Self
• Haytabo1971 · as Courier
• The Niklashausen Journey1970 · as Schwarzer Mönch
• Gods of the Plague1970 · as Pornokunde
• End of the Commune?1970 · as Self (uncredited)
• Love Is Colder Than Death1970 · as Franz
• Baal1970 · as Baal
• Katzelmacher1969 · as Jorgos
• Al Capone im deutschen Wald1969 · as Heini
• Frei bis zum nächsten Mal1969 · as Mechaniker
• Tonys Freunde1969 · as Mallard
• The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp1968 · as the pimp
• Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt1968 · as Soldier
• The Little Chaos1966 · as Franz
• The City Tramp1966 · as Man #1 on Toilet

All TV Shows (12)

• Filmlegenden. Deutsch2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz1980 · as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
• NDR Talk Show1979 · as Self
• Biographies1978 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Am laufenden Band1974 · as Self - Guest
• Je später der Abend1973 · as Self
• Dalli Dalli1971 · as Self
• aspekte1965 · as Self
• Grimme Award1964 · as Self
• Stars in the Ring1959 · as Self
• German Film Award1951 · as Self