Rainer Werner Fassbinder

About

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...

Known for

Berlin AlexanderplatzSeries • 1980World on a WireSeries • 1973Peter von KantMovie • 2022LolaMovie • 1981Eight Hours Don’t Make a DaySeries • 1972The Marriage of Maria BraunMovie • 1979Water Drops on Burning RocksMovie • 2000Ali: Fear Eats the SoulMovie • 1974QuerelleMovie • 1982The Bitter Tears of Petra von KantMovie • 1972In a Year with 13 MoonsMovie • 1978Lili MarleenMovie • 1981Satan’s BrewMovie • 1976DespairMovie • 1978Beware of a Holy WhoreMovie • 1971Germany in AutumnMovie • 1978Effi BriestMovie • 1974Veronika VossMovie • 1982Chinese RouletteMovie • 1977The Merchant of Four SeasonsMovie • 1972The City TrampMovie • 1966Love Is Colder Than DeathMovie • 1970Mother Küsters Goes to HeavenMovie • 1975Fox and His FriendsMovie • 1975