Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
as Peddler
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
as Eugen
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lili Marleen (1981)
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
as Sascha
Haytabo (1971)
as Courier
Germany in Autumn (1978)
as Self (uncredited)
Katzelmacher (1969)
as Jorgos
Effi Briest (1974)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Veronika Voss (1982)
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Room 666 (1985)
as Self
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
as Zucker
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
as Wittowski
Fox and His Friends (1975)
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Photographer "Eise" (2019)
as Self
The City Tramp (1966)
as Man #1 on Toilet
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 (2005)
as Self
Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)
as Franz
Bourbon Street Blues (1979)
as Writer
My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Supergirl (1971)
as Man in Front of Shop Window
Die Wohngenossin (1975)
Actor
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works (1982)
as Self
Atlètic Club Banyoles (2007)
as self
Whity (1971)
as Saloon guest (uncredited)
Kamikaze '89 (1982)
as Police Lieutenant Jansen
Little Godard (1978)
as Second Director
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
End of the Commune? (1970)
as Self (uncredited)
Fassbinder (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me (1976)
as Self
The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
as Schwarzer Mönch
The Little Chaos (1966)
as Franz
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)
as Bauer
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
as Self (archive footage)
Gods of the Plague (1970)
as Pornokunde
Baal (1970)
as Baal
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981)
as Self
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child (2024)
Actor
The American Soldier (1976)
as Franz Walsch (uncredited)
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume (1975)
as Self
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1987)
as Self
A German Youth (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
The Ancestress (1971)
as Jaromir
Back to Room 666 (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt (1968)
as Soldier
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 (1971)
as Self
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968)
as the pimp
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder (1978)
as Self
Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969)
as Heini
Fassbinder's Women (2000)
as Self (Archive footage)
Rio das Mortes (1971)
as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
as Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Trip to Harrisburg (1984)
as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
The Wizard of Babylon (1982)
as Self
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal (1969)
as Mechaniker
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (1980)
as Self
Mathias Kneißl (1971)
as Flecklbauer
Polnischer Sommer (1981)
as Babiuch
Adolf and Marlene (1977)
as Hermann
Shadow of Angels (1976)
as Raoul
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980)
as Self
Bremen Freedom (1972)
as Rumpf
Tonys Freunde (1969)
as Mallard
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)
as Self
Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
as Self (archive footage)