Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Directing
🎂 1945-05-31
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career that lasted 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.
Cast credits(79)
Self
1974
Self
1951
Self
1965
Self
1959
Self
1979
Self - Guest
1974
Self
1964
Self
1971
uncredited
1980
Self
1973
Self (archive footage)
2006
Peddler
1979
Eugen
1974
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
1981
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
1975
Self
1978
Zucker
1972
Police Lieutenant Jansen
1982
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
1982
Self
1982
Self (archive footage)
2020
Sascha
1971
Baal
1970
Man in Front of Shop Window
1971
Bauer
1971
Franz
1970
Self (uncredited)
1978
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1974
Wittowski
1973
Saloon guest (uncredited)
1971
Rumpf
1972
Jorgos
1969
Franz Walsch (uncredited)
1970
Pornokunde
1970
Franz
1966
Self (archive footage)
2011
Self (archive footage)
2010
Schwarzer Mönch
1970
Self (archive footage)
2008
Raoul
1976
Self (archive footage)
2015
Self (uncredited)
1970
Self
1971
Self
1974
Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
1971
Second Director
1978
Bote des Professors
1971
Self
1978
Self
1976
Self (archive footage)
1992
Self (archive footage)
2002
Self (archive footage)
2008
Self (archive footage)
2012
Man #1 on Toilet
1966
Mallard
1969
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
1984
Self
1980
Self (archive footage)
2015
Self
1975
Heini
1969
Flecklbauer
1971
Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
1976
Self (archive footage)
2014
Mechaniker
1969
1975
Self
2005
the pimp
1968
Babiuch
1981
Jaromir
1971
Self
1982
Writer
1979
2024
Self
1987
Self
1981
Self
1980
self
2007
Self
1982
Soldier
1968
Self
2019
Directing (45)
Director
1973
Director
1980
Director
1979
Director
1972
Director
1981
Director
1982
Director
1974
Director
1972
Director
1981
Director
1975
Director
1978
Director
1972
Director
1982
Director
1970
Director
1974
Director
1977
Director
1975
Director
1978
Director
1975
Director
1976
Director
1979
Director
1971
Director
1970
Director
1978
Director
1974
Director
1977
Director
1973
Director
1971
Director
1972
Director
1976
Director
1969
Director
1970
Director
1970
Director
1966
Director
1970
Director
1974
Director
1971
Director
1966
Director
1977
Director
1970
Director
1966
Director
1975
Director
1971
Director
1981
Assistant Director
1966
Writing (50)
Screenplay
1973
Writer
1980
Writer
2000
Idea
1979
Writer
1972
Screenplay
1981
Original Story
2022
Screenplay
1982
Author
1974
Screenplay
1972
Screenplay
1981
Writer
1975
Screenplay
1972
Screenplay
1982
Screenplay
1970
Screenplay
1974
Writer
1977
Writer
1975
Writer
1978
Writer
1975
Writer
1976
Screenplay
1979
Writer
1971
Screenplay
1970
Screenplay
1978
Screenplay
1974
Writer
1977
Writer
1973
Screenplay
1973
Screenplay
1971
Author
1972
Writer
1976
Screenplay
1969
Theatre Play
1969
Writer
1970
Screenplay
1970
Writer
1966
Writer
1970
Theatre Play
1976
Screenplay
1976
Writer
1971
Writer
1966
Writer
1974
Writer
1970
Theatre Play
2012
Writer
1966
Writer
1975
Screenplay
1971
Writer
1981
Writer
2013
