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