Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Birthday: 1945-05-31
Place of Birth: Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Biography: 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.
Movies
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...
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Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves h...
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Veronika Voss
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Mar...
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Gods of the Plague
A man is released from prison and finds society on the outside less than appealing. With several wom...
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Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
An interview with RWF in the kitchen in a house he had rented close to Paris at that time. Four year...
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Al Capone im deutschen Wald
A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capo...
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f...
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Katzelmacher
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment buildi...
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The Wizard of Babylon
A documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle,"...
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Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leand...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st...
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Kamikaze '89
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady...
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The Last Trip to Harrisburg
A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg....
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Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things ...
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Germany in Autumn
The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from...
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Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, w...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the ...
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long track...
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The Little Chaos
Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little r...
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The American Soldier
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer....
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's question...
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Bremen Freedom
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in ...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor— taking the lead...
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Bourbon Street Blues
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the ass...
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Baal
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast a...
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age ...
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....
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Little Godard
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hell...
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The Niklashausen Journey
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacke...
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1 Berlin-Harlem
An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, wh...
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Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
A young man named Jürgen joins the military. As much as he tries to make a heroic career as a soldie...
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Mathias Kneißl
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria...
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Supergirl
A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She we...
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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
In an attempt to escape 19th-century poverty, eight farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money...
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Die Wohngenossin
A hitchhiker unsettles the ideologically colored lifestyle of a young architect and in doing so lose...
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Whity
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 187...
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Haytabo
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality dr...
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Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dr...
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Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed...
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Back to Room 666
What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer th...
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Lili Marleen
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives beh...
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Room 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
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Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series....
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"...
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Tonys Freunde
Based on the French play Copain, Clopant. The plot revolves around the gangster Mallard, who wants t...
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My Name Is Not Ali
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unkn...
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Rio das Mortes
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasu...
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Atlètic Club Banyoles
The filmmaker Albert Serra and producer Àngel Martin present their last work on the web dedicated to...
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Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...
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End of the Commune?
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a m...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting ...
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Photographer "Eise"
A portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist, Alfred E...
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
What tends to be forgotten behind Fassbinder's immense cinematic oeuvre is that he wrote and directe...
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Fassbinder's Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner...
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