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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography and Full Filmography - MovieWise

Quick Facts

Born:
1945-05-31

Birthplace:
Bad Wörishofen, Germany

Credits:
83 Total Roles

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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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

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2024 Sukowa - Playful Like A Child MOVIE Self
2020 Wim Wenders, Desperado MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2019 Photographer "Eise" MOVIE Self
2015 A German Youth MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2015 Fassbinder MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2015 Fassbinder: Love Without Demands MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2014 Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2012 Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2011 My Name Is Not Ali MOVIE Self (archive footage)
2010 Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense MOVIE Self (archive footage)

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