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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Birthday: 1945-05-31 | Place of Birth: Bad Wörishofen, Germany

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2008
Back to Room 666

as    Self (archive footage)

1982
Veronika Voss

as    Kinobesucher (uncredited)

1982
Kamikaze 1989

as    Police Lieutenant Jansen

1982
Room 666

as    Self

1977
1976
Fox and His Friends

as    Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf

1973
Tenderness of the Wolves

as    Wittowski

1971
Whity

as    Saloon guest (uncredited)

1970
Gods of the Plague

as    Pornokunde

1969
Katzelmacher

as    Jorgos