Rainer Werner Fassbinder
AKA: Rainer W. Fassbinder
Birthday: 1945-05-31
Died: 1982-06-10
Birthplace: Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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 was prolific; 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. 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.
Filmography
Character: Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Police Lieutenant Jansen
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Man #1 on Toilet
Character: Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Character: Schwarzer Mönch
Character: Man in Front of Shop Window
Character: Bote des Professors
Character: Saloon guest (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Franz Walsch (uncredited)
Character: Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
Character: Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
Character: Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Second Director
Job: Original Music Composer
Job: Director of Photography
Job: Director of Photography
Job: Original Music Composer