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
- A German Youth as Self (archive footage)
- Fassbinder: Love Without Demands 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
- Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self (archive footage)
- Back to Room 666 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
- Fassbinder in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch 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 ... (Editor)
- 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 ... (Screenplay)
- Lili Marleen as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
- Theater in Trance ... (Director)
- Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Self
- 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 ... (Director)
- Bourbon Street Blues as Writer
1978
- In a Year with 13 Moons ... (Director)
- Germany in Autumn as Self (uncredited)
- Despair ... (Director)
- Little Godard as Second Director
- Biographies as Self
- Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder as Self
- Spiel der Verlierer ... (Producer)
1977
- Chinese Roulette ... (Writer)
- Adolf and Marlene as Hermann
- Women in New York ... (Director)
- The Stationmaster’s Wife ... (Director)
1976
- Satan’s Brew ... (Director)
- Shadow of Angels as Raoul
- I Only Want You to Love Me ... (Writer)
- The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me as Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
- The American Soldier as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
- Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
1975
- Fox and His Friends as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
- Fear of Fear ... (Director)
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven ... (Director)
- Like a Bird on a Wire ... (Director)
- Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume as Self
- Die Wohngenossin
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Eugen
- La Paloma ... (Writer)
- Martha ... (Director)
- Effi Briest as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1 Berlin-Harlem as Self
- Nora Helmer ... (Director)
1973
- World on a Wire ... (Director)
- Je später der Abend as Self
- Jail Bait ... (Writer)
- Tenderness of the Wolves as Wittowski
1972
- Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day ... (Writer)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ... (Screenplay)
- Bremen Freedom as Rumpf
- The Merchant of Four Seasons as Zucker
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
- Beware of a Holy Whore as Sascha
- Supergirl as Man in Front of Shop Window
- Whity as Saloon guest (uncredited)
- Pioneers in Ingolstadt ... (Director)
- Haytabo as Courier
- Mathias Kneißl as Flecklbauer
- Rio das Mortes as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
- The Ancestress as Jaromir
- The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach as Bauer
- Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 as Self
1970
- Gods of the Plague as Pornokunde
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ... (Screenplay)
- Love Is Colder Than Death as Franz
- 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
- Tonys Freunde as Mallard
- Frei bis zum nächsten Mal as Mechaniker
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
- 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