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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.
Known For
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Filmography
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| 1980 | Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) |
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| 1973 | World on a Wire (TV Series) |
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| 1972 | Eight Hours Don't Make A Day (TV Series) |
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| 1982 | Querelle · as Screenplay |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss · as Screenplay |
| 1981 | Lola · as Screenplay |
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| 1981 | Lili Marleen · as Screenplay |
| 1980 | Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) |
| 1979 | The Third Generation · as Screenplay |
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| 1978 | Germany in Autumn · as Screenplay |
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| 1974 | Effi Briest · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | Martha · as Screenplay |
| 1973 | World on a Wire (TV Series) |
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| 1972 | Eight Hours Don't Make A Day (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant · as Screenplay |
| 1972 | The Merchant of Four Seasons · as Screenplay |
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| 1971 | Whity · as Screenplay |
| 1971 | Pioneers in Ingolstadt · as Screenplay |
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| 1970 | Gods of the Plague · as Screenplay |
| 1970 | Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? · as Screenplay |
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| 1969 | Love Is Colder Than Death · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Katzelmacher · as Screenplay |
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| 2008 | Mr. Karl - Ein Mensch für Menschen · as Franz Biberkopf |
| 1982 | Kamikaze 89 · as Police Lieutenant Jansen |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss · as Kinobesucher (uncredited) |
| 1981 | Lili Marleen · as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited) |
| 1980 | Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) · as Uncredited |
| 1979 | The Marriage of Maria Braun · as Peddler |
| 1977 | Adolf and Marlene · as Hermann |
| 1976 | Shadow of Angels · as Raoul |
| 1975 | Fox and His Friends · as Franz "fox" Bieberkopf |
| 1974 | Effi Briest · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul · as Eugen |
| 1973 | Tenderness of the Wolves · as Wittowski |
| 1972 | Bremen Freedom · as Rumpf |
| 1972 | The Merchant of Four Seasons · as Zucker |
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| 1971 | Beware of a Holy Whore · as Sascha |
| 1971 | Whity · as Saloon Guest (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Mathias Kneissl · as Flecklbauer |
| 1971 | Supergirl - Das Mädchen von den Sternen · as Man In Front Of Shop Window |
| 1971 | Rio das Mortes · as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Haytabo · as Bote Des Professors |
| 1970 | The Niklashausen Journey · as Schwarzer Mönch |
| 1970 | The American Soldier · as Franz Walsch (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Gods of the Plague · as Pornokunde |
| 1970 | Baal · as Baal |
| 1969 | Love Is Colder Than Death · as Franz |
| 1969 | Katzelmacher · as Jorgos |
| 1968 | With Oak Leaves and Fig Leaf · as Soldier |
| 1967 | The Little Chaos · as Franz |
| 1966 | The City Tramp · as Man #1 On Toilet |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss · as Co-Producer |
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| 1972 | Eight Hours Don't Make A Day (TV Series) |
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| 2021 | Hanna Schygulla · as Self |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders: Desperado · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Im Reich der Filme · as Self |
| 2018 | Kulenkampffs Schuhe · as Self |
| 2015 | Fassbinder · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | My Name Is Not Ali · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | Great Directors · as Self (clip From Chambre 666 (tv)) |
| 2008 | Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Here's Looking at You, Boy · as Self |
| 2005 | Life, Love & Celluloid · as Self |
| 2002 | Fassbinder in Hollywood · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2000 | Fassbinder's Women · as Self |
| 1992 | I Don't Just Want You to Love Me: The filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1982 | Room 666 · as Self |
| 1979 | The Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' · as Self |
| 1979 | NDR Talk Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | In a Year with 13 Moons · as Self |
| 1978 | Germany in Autumn · as Self (uncredited) |
| 1977 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 · as Self |
| 1974 | Am laufenden Band (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1974 | 1 Berlin-Harlem · as Self |
| 1971 | Dalli Dalli (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1970 | Ende einer Kommune? · as Self (uncredited) |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1965 | aspekte (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1959 | Stars in der Manege (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Peter von Kant · as Original Story |
| 2012 | Garbage, the City and Death · as Theatre Play |
| 1981 | Lola · as Line Producer |
| 1979 | The Third Generation · as Director Of Photography |
| 1979 | The Marriage of Maria Braun · as Idea |
| 1978 | In a Year with 13 Moons · as Art Direction |
| 1978 | In a Year with 13 Moons · as Director Of Photography |
| 1976 | Shadow of Angels · as Theatre Play |
| 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul · as Production Design |
| 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | Nora Helmer · as Teleplay |
| 1972 | Bremen Freedom · as Author |
| 1972 | The Merchant of Four Seasons · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | The American Soldier · as Production Design |
| 1969 | Katzelmacher · as Production Design |
| 1965 | Estudio 1 (TV Series) · as Play "die Bitteren Tränen Der Petra Von Kant" |