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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Known For Directing
Birthday May 31, 1945
Died Jun 10, 1982 (37)
Birthplace Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Popularity 1.0 (history)
Updated Jul 31, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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Filmography

Kamikaze 1989

Kamikaze 1989

1982

as Police Lieutenant Jansen

The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979

as Peddler

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

as Eugen

Querelle

Querelle

1982

Screenplay, Editor

Theater in Trance

Theater in Trance

1981

Writer

The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979

Idea, Editor

Despair

Despair

1978

Editor

Martha

Martha

1974

Screenplay

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

Original Music Composer, Production Design, Author

Querelle

Querelle

1982

Director

Theater in Trance

Theater in Trance

1981

Director

Despair

Despair

1978

Director

Martha

Martha

1974

Director

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

Director

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

Producer

Organization Category Movie
Sundance Film Festival Best Director Querelle Nominated
Television Credits

Berlin Alexanderplatz

as uncredited

Episodes: 14

First Aired: Oct 12, 1980

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

as Self (archive footage)

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 14, 2006

Am laufenden Band

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 27, 1974

Stars in der Manege

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 11, 1959

Lebensläufe

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 21, 1978

Dalli Dalli

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 13, 1971

Spécial cinéma

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 25, 1974

Deutscher Filmpreis

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1951

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 16, 1964

NDR Talk Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 09, 1979

Je später der Abend

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 18, 1973

aspekte

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 17, 1965

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