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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
As director
Veronika Voss
Querelle
Lili Marleen
Lola
Theater in Trance
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Third Generation
Germany in Autumn
Despair
In a Year with 13 Moons
Chinese Roulette
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Women in New York
Satan’s Brew
The American Soldier
I Only Want You to Love Me
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Fox and His Friends
Fear of Fear
Like a Bird on a Wire
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Effi Briest
Martha
Nora Helmer
Jail Bait
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Bremen Freedom
Beware of a Holy Whore
Whity
As actor
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Photographer "Eise"
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Fassbinder
A German Youth
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
My Name Is Not Ali
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Back to Room 666
Atlètic Club Banyoles
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Fassbinder's Women
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Room 666
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Veronika Voss
The Wizard of Babylon
Kamikaze '89
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Polnischer Sommer
Lili Marleen
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'