Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Directing • Born 1945-05-31 – Died 1982-06-10
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
83 credits
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Movie • 1974
Eugen
Shadow of Angels
Movie • 1976
Raoul
Veronika Voss
Movie • 1982
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Gods of the Plague
Movie • 1970
Pornokunde
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Movie • 1978
Self
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
Movie • 1969
Heini
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Katzelmacher
Movie • 1969
Jorgos
The Wizard of Babylon
Movie • 1982
Self
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Movie • 1980
Self
Beware of a Holy Whore
Movie • 1971
Sascha
Kamikaze '89
Movie • 1982
Police Lieutenant Jansen
Love Is Colder Than Death
Movie • 1970
Franz
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Movie • 1984
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
Fox and His Friends
Movie • 1975
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Germany in Autumn
Movie • 1978
Self (uncredited)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Movie • 1972
Zucker
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Movie • 1981
Self
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage)
The City Tramp
Movie • 1966
Man #1 on Toilet
Tenderness of the Wolves
Movie • 1973
Wittowski
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Movie • 1968
the pimp
The Little Chaos
Movie • 1966
Franz
The American Soldier
Movie • 1976
Franz Walsch (uncredited)
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
Movie • 1976
Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
Bremen Freedom
Movie • 1972
Rumpf
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Movie • 1982
Self
Bourbon Street Blues
Movie • 1979
Writer
Baal
Movie • 1970
Baal
The Ancestress
Movie • 1971
Jaromir
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Movie • 1971
Self
Little Godard
Movie • 1978
Second Director
The Niklashausen Journey
Movie • 1970
Schwarzer Mönch
1 Berlin-Harlem
Movie • 1974
Self
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Movie • 1968
Soldier
Mathias Kneißl
Movie • 1971
Flecklbauer
Supergirl
Movie • 1971
Man in Front of Shop Window
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Movie • 1971
Bauer
Die Wohngenossin
Movie • 1975
Whity
Movie • 1971
Saloon guest (uncredited)
Haytabo
Movie • 1971
Courier
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Back to Room 666
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Polnischer Sommer
Movie • 1981
Babiuch
Lili Marleen
Movie • 1981
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Movie • 2005
Self
Room 666
Movie • 1982
Self
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Movie • 1975
Self
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Movie • 1987
Self
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie • 1979
Peddler
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Movie • 1976
Self
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Movie • 1980
Self
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
Movie • 1969
Mechaniker
Tonys Freunde
Movie • 1969
Mallard
My Name Is Not Ali
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Rio das Mortes
Movie • 1971
Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
Atlètic Club Banyoles
Movie • 2007
self
Effi Briest
Movie • 1974
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
End of the Commune?
Movie • 1970
Self (uncredited)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Photographer "Eise"
Movie • 2019
Self
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Movie • 2024
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder's Women
Movie • 2000
Self (Archive footage)
Adolf and Marlene
Movie • 1977
Hermann
A German Youth
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Am laufenden Band
TV • 1974
Self - Guest
Stars in the Ring
TV • 1959
Self
Biographies
TV • 1978
Self
Dalli Dalli
TV • 1971
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
TV • 2006
Self (archive footage)
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Je später der Abend
TV • 1973
Self
aspekte
TV • 1965
Self
Berlin Alexanderplatz
TV • 1980
Narrator (voice, uncredited)