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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born May 31, 1945Died June 10, 1982 (37 years)
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 & Shows on Plex
  • Kamikaze 89
Known For
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • Veronika Voss
  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  • Querelle
  • Fox and His Friends
  • Lola
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • World on a Wire
  • Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons
  • In a Year with 13 Moons
  • Chinese Roulette
  • Lili Marleen
  • Effi Briest
  • Love Is Colder Than Death
  • Water Drops on Burning Rocks
  • Despair
  • Katzelmacher
  • Martha
  • The Third Generation
  • Peter von Kant
  • Beware of a Holy Whore
  • Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

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