Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Born May 31, 1945 (Age: 80)
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Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 65
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
2002
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 57
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 57
Fassbinder's Women
2000
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as Self (Archive footage)
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Age: 55
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 47
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Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
1987
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as Self
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Age: 41
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984
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as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
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Age: 39
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Polnischer Sommer
1981
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as Babiuch
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Age: 36
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981
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as Self
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Age: 35
Lili Marleen
1981
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as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
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Age: 35
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Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980
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as Self
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Age: 34
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
1980
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as Self
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Age: 34
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Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
1978
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as Self
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Age: 33
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Little Godard
1978
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as Second Director
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Age: 33
Germany in Autumn
1978
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 32
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1976
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as Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
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Age: 30
Effi Briest
1974
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as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 29
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
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as Eugen
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Age: 28
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974
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as Self
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Age: 28
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973
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as Wittowski
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Age: 28
Bremen Freedom
1972
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as Rumpf
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Age: 27
The Ancestress
1971
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as Jaromir
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Age: 26
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971
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as Self
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Age: 25
Katzelmacher
1969
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as Jorgos
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Age: 24
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Al Capone im deutschen Wald
1969
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as Heini
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Age: 24
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Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
1969
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as Mechaniker
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Age: 24
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Tonys Freunde
1969
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as Mallard
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Age: 24