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)
- A German Youth as Self (archive footage)
- Fassbinder 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)
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self (archive footage)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun ... (Writer)
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)
- Veronika Voss as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
- Kamikaze '89 as Police Lieutenant Jansen
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works as Self
- The Wizard of Babylon as Self
1981
- Lola ... (Director)
- Lili Marleen as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
- Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Self
- Theater in Trance ... (Director)
- Polnischer Sommer as Babiuch
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
- In a Year with 13 Moons as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Despair ... (Director)
- Biographies as Self
- Germany in Autumn as Self (uncredited)
- Little Godard as Second Director
- Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder as Self
- Spiel der Verlierer ... (Editor)
1977
- Chinese Roulette ... (Writer)
- The Stationmaster’s Wife ... (Director)
- Women in New York ... (Director)
- Adolf and Marlene as Hermann
1976
- Satan’s Brew ... (Director)
- I Only Want You to Love Me ... (Director)
- Fear of Fear ... (Director)
- Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
- The American Soldier as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
- Shadow of Angels as Raoul
- The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me as Self
1975
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven ... (Director)
- Fox and His Friends as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
- Like a Bird on a Wire ... (Director)
- Die Wohngenossin
- Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Eugen
- Effi Briest as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Martha ... (Director)
- La Paloma ... (Writer)
- 1 Berlin-Harlem as Self
- Nora Helmer ... (Director)
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 ... (Writer)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons as Zucker
- Bremen Freedom as Rumpf
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
- Beware of a Holy Whore as Sascha
- Supergirl as Man in Front of Shop Window
- Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 as Self
- Haytabo as Courier
- The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach as Bauer
- Rio das Mortes as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
- The Ancestress as Jaromir
- Mathias Kneißl as Flecklbauer
- Whity as Saloon guest (uncredited)
- Pioneers in Ingolstadt ... (Director)
1970
- Love Is Colder Than Death as Franz
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ... (Director)
- Gods of the Plague as Pornokunde
- Baal as Baal
- The Coffee House ... (Director)
- End of the Commune? as Self (uncredited)
- The Niklashausen Journey as Schwarzer Mönch
1969
- Katzelmacher as Jorgos
- Al Capone im deutschen Wald as Heini
- Frei bis zum nächsten Mal as Mechaniker
- Tonys Freunde as Mallard
1968
- The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp as the pimp
- Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt as Soldier
1966
- The City Tramp as Man #1 on Toilet
- This Night ... (Cinematography)
- The Little Chaos as Franz
- Ein Platz für Günter ... (Assistant Director)
1965
- aspekte as Self
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
1959
- Stars in der Manege as Self
1951
- German Film Award as Self