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