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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
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, F…
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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.
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2022
Peter von Kant
Movie Original Story
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2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Photographer "Eise"
Movie Self
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2015
A German Youth
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Fassbinder
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Frogman Katzelmacher
Movie Writer
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2012
Garbage, the City and Death
Movie Theatre Play
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2012
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2011
My Name Is Not Ali
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Back to Room 666
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Movie Writer
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2007
Atlètic Club Banyoles
Movie self
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2006
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2005
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Movie Self
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2002
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Fassbinder's Women
Movie Self (Archive footage)
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2000
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Movie Writer
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1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Movie Self
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1985
Room 666
Movie Self
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1984
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Movie Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
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1982
Querelle
Movie Editor
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1982
The Wizard of Babylon
Movie Self
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1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Movie Self
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1982
Kamikaze '89
Movie Police Lieutenant Jansen
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1982
Veronika Voss
Movie Kinobesucher (uncredited)
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1981
Lola
Movie Screenplay
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1981
Theater in Trance
Movie Director
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1981
Polnischer Sommer
Movie Babiuch
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1981
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Movie Self
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1981
Lili Marleen
Movie Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
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1980
Berlin Alexanderplatz
TV show Narrator (voice, uncredited)
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1980
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Movie Self
- 1980
