Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Born: 1945-05-31 in Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Died: 1982-06-10
Known For: Directing
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
2022
- Peter von Kant ... (Original Story)
2020
- Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Photographer "Eise" as Self
2015
- Fassbinder: Love Without Demands as Self (archive footage)
- Fassbinder as Self (archive footage)
- A German Youth as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Frogman Katzelmacher ... (Writer)
2012
- Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun as Self (archive footage)
- Garbage, the City and Death ... (Theatre Play)
2011
- My Name Is Not Ali as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Back to Room 666 as Self (archive footage)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun ... (Writer)
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Atlètic Club Banyoles as self
2006
- Filmlegenden. Deutsch as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 as Self
2002
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch as Self (archive footage)
- Fassbinder in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Water Drops on Burning Rocks ... (Writer)
- Fassbinder's Women as Self (Archive footage)
1992
- I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk as Self
1985
- Room 666 as Self
1984
- The Last Trip to Harrisburg as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
1982
- Querelle ... (Director)
- Kamikaze '89 as Police Lieutenant Jansen
- Veronika Voss as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works as Self
- The Wizard of Babylon as Self
1981
- Lola ... (Director)
- Lili Marleen as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
- Theater in Trance ... (Director)
- Polnischer Sommer as Babiuch
- Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Self
1980
- Berlin Alexanderplatz as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
- Douglas Sirk: Über Stars as Self
- Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' as Self
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- The Marriage of Maria Braun as Peddler
- The Third Generation ... (Screenplay)
- Bourbon Street Blues as Writer
1978
- Germany in Autumn as Self (uncredited)
- In a Year with 13 Moons ... (Director)
- Biographies as Self
- Despair ... (Director)
- Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder as Self
- Spiel der Verlierer ... (Editor)
- Little Godard as Second Director
1977
- Chinese Roulette ... (Writer)
- Women in New York ... (Director)
- The Stationmaster’s Wife ... (Director)
- Adolf and Marlene as Hermann
1976
- Satan’s Brew ... (Director)
- I Only Want You to Love Me ... (Director)
- Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
- Shadow of Angels as Raoul
- The American Soldier as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
- The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me as Self
1975
- Fox and His Friends as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
- Die Wohngenossin
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven ... (Director)
- Fear of Fear ... (Director)
- Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume as Self
- Like a Bird on a Wire ... (Director)
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Eugen
- Martha ... (Director)
- Effi Briest as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- La Paloma ... (Writer)
- Nora Helmer ... (Director)
- 1 Berlin-Harlem as Self
1973
- Je später der Abend as Self
- World on a Wire ... (Director)
- Tenderness of the Wolves as Wittowski
- Jail Bait ... (Writer)
1972
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ... (Director)
- Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day ... (Director)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons as Zucker
- Bremen Freedom as Rumpf
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
- Haytabo as Courier
- Supergirl as Man in Front of Shop Window
- Rio das Mortes as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
- Beware of a Holy Whore as Sascha
- Whity as Saloon guest (uncredited)
- Mathias Kneißl as Flecklbauer
- The Ancestress as Jaromir
- The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach as Bauer
- Pioneers in Ingolstadt ... (Director)
- Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 as Self
1970
- Baal as Baal
- The Coffee House ... (Director)
- Gods of the Plague as Pornokunde
- The Niklashausen Journey as Schwarzer Mönch
- Love Is Colder Than Death as Franz
- End of the Commune? as Self (uncredited)
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ... (Director)
1969
- Katzelmacher as Jorgos
- Tonys Freunde as Mallard
- Al Capone im deutschen Wald as Heini
- Frei bis zum nächsten Mal as Mechaniker
1968
- Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt as Soldier
- The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp as the pimp
1966
- The City Tramp as Man #1 on Toilet
- The Little Chaos as Franz
- This Night ... (Cinematography)
- Ein Platz für Günter ... (Assistant Director)
1965
- aspekte as Self
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
1959
- Stars in the Ring as Self
1951
- German Film Award as Self