Rainer Werner Fassbinder profile
Actor profile

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

31st May 1945 Bad Wörishofen, Germany Directing

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.

59 Movies 6 TV Shows 84 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Lili Marleen 14th January 1981 as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
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Effi Briest 20th June 1974 as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Whity 2nd June 1971 as Saloon guest (uncredited)
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Supergirl 14th May 1971 as Man in Front of Shop Window
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Baal 7th January 1970 as Baal