Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 31, 1945, Bad Wörishofen, Germany
- Died
- June 10, 1982
- Movies
- 121
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2013 | Frogman Katzelmacher | Writer |
| 2008 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Writer |
| 2000 | Water Drops on Burning Rocks | Writer |
| 1982 | Querelle | Director, Screenplay |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss | Director, Screenplay |
| 1981 | Lola | Director, Screenplay |
| 1981 | Theater in Trance | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | Lili Marleen | Director, Screenplay |
| 1979 | The Third Generation | Screenplay, Director, Producer |
| 1979 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Director |
| 1978 | In a Year with 13 Moons | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1978 | Spiel der Verlierer | Producer |
| 1978 | Despair | Director |
| 1978 | Germany in Autumn | Director, Screenplay |
| 1977 | The Stationmaster’s Wife | Director, Writer |
| 1977 | Women in New York | Director |
| 1977 | Adolf and Marlene | Producer |
| 1977 | Chinese Roulette | Writer, Director |
| 1976 | Fear of Fear | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | The American Soldier | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1976 | Satan’s Brew | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | Shadow of Angels | Screenplay |
| 1976 | I Only Want You to Love Me | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Fox and His Friends | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1975 | Like a Bird on a Wire | Director, Writer |
| 1974 | La Paloma | Writer |
| 1974 | Effi Briest | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1974 | Martha | Director, Screenplay |
| 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1974 | Nora Helmer | Director |
| 1973 | Tenderness of the Wolves | Producer |
| 1973 | Jail Bait | Writer, Screenplay, Director |
| 1972 | Bremen Freedom | Director |
| 1972 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1972 | The Merchant of Four Seasons | Screenplay, Director, Producer |
| 1971 | Beware of a Holy Whore | Writer, Director |
| 1971 | Whity | Screenplay, Director |
| 1971 | Pioneers in Ingolstadt | Director, Screenplay |
| 1971 | Rio das Mortes | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | The Niklashausen Journey | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | Gods of the Plague | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1970 | Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | Director, Screenplay |
| 1970 | The Coffee House | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | Love Is Colder Than Death | Screenplay, Director |
| 1969 | Katzelmacher | Screenplay, Director |
| 1966 | The Little Chaos | Director, Writer |
| 1966 | This Night | Director, Writer |
| 1966 | The City Tramp | Director, Writer |
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