Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Directing · Born 1945-05-31 · age 37 at death · Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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.
Titles
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Querelle
Veronika Voss
Fox and His Friends
Lola
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Peter von Kant
Chinese Roulette
Lili Marleen
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
In a Year with 13 Moons
The Merchant of Four Seasons
World on a Wire
Martha
Beware of a Holy Whore
Love Is Colder Than Death
Katzelmacher
Effi Briest
The Third Generation
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Despair
Tenderness of the Wolves
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Satan’s Brew
Gods of the Plague
The Little Chaos
Germany in Autumn
Fear of Fear
I Only Want You to Love Me
Kamikaze '89
The City Tramp
The American Soldier
Whity
Baal
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Rio das Mortes
Jail Bait
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
The Stationmaster’s Wife
La Paloma
The Niklashausen Journey
Supergirl
Shadow of Angels
Bourbon Street Blues
Nora Helmer
Like a Bird on a Wire
Bremen Freedom
Theater in Trance
Haytabo
The Coffee House
Women in New York
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Adolf and Marlene
Garbage, the City and Death
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Mathias Kneißl