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 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self (archive footage) | 2020-07-16 |
Movie | Fassbinder: Love Without Demands | 2015-02-07 | |
Movie | Fassbinder | Himself | 2015-04-30 |
Movie | My Name Is Not Ali | Self (archive footage) | 2011-11-07 |
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 | 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 | Room 666 | Self | 1982-06-01 |
Movie | Veronika Voss | Kinobesucher (uncredited) | 1982-05-13 |
Movie | Kamikaze 1989 | Police Lieutenant Jansen | 1982-07-16 |
Movie | Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works | 1982-07-25 | |
Movie | Lili Marleen | Günther Weissenborn (uncredited) | 1981-01-14 |
Movie | Polnischer Sommer | Babiuch | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | Douglas Sirk: Über Stars | Self | 1980-04-29 |
Movie | Bourbon Street Blues | Writer | 1979-02-22 |
Series | NDR Talk Show | Unknown | 1979-02-09 |
Movie | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Peddler | 1979-03-23 |
Movie | Germany in Autumn | Self | 1978-03-03 |
Movie | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 | Self | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | Shadow of Angels | Raoul | 1976-09-03 |
Movie | Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | Self | 1976-12-02 |
Movie | Die Wohngenossin | 1975-05-29 | |
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 | Effi Briest | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-06-20 |
Movie | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Eugen | 1974-06-05 |
Movie | Tenderness of the Wolves | Wittowski | 1973-07-12 |
Movie | The Merchant of Four Seasons | Zucker | 1972-02-10 |
Movie | Bremen Freedom | Rumpf | 1972-11-12 |
Movie | The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Bauer | 1971-04-14 |
Movie | Rio das Mortes | 1971-02-15 | |
Movie | Haytabo | Bote des Professors | 1971-01-01 |
Series | Dalli Dalli | Unknown | 1971-05-13 |
Movie | Mathias Kneißl | Flecklbauer | 1971-05-27 |
Movie | Beware of a Holy Whore | Sascha | 1971-08-28 |
Movie | Supergirl | Man in Front of Shop Window | 1971-05-14 |
Movie | Whity | 1971-06-02 | |
Movie | Baal | Baal | 1970-01-07 |
Movie | Love Is Colder Than Death | Franz | 1970-01-16 |
Movie | The Niklashausen Journey | Schwarzer Mönch | 1970-10-26 |
Movie | Gods of the Plague | Pornokunde | 1970-07-24 |
Movie | The American Soldier | Franz Walsch (uncredited) | 1970-10-09 |
Movie | Katzelmacher | Jorgos | 1969-10-07 |
Movie | Tonys Freunde | Mallard | 1969-07-09 |
Movie | Al Capone im deutschen Wald | Heini | 1969-10-22 |
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 |