Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1945-05-31
Day of Death
1982-06-10
Place of Birth
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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.
Filmography (71)
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Photographer "Eise"
2019
A German Youth
2015
Fassbinder
2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2012
My Name Is Not Ali
2011
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008Back to Room 666
2008Atlètic Club Banyoles
2007
