Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Known for: Directing
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.
Filmography
Series
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Grimme Award
Self
1964
German Film Award
Self
1951
Series
Dalli Dalli
Self
1971
aspekte
Self
1965
Series
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1980
Series
Stars in der Manege
Self
1959
Je später der Abend
Self
1973
Series
Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest
1974
Film
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Peddler
1979
Film
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Eugen
1974
Film
Veronika Voss
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
1982
Film
Lili Marleen
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
1981
Film
Katzelmacher
Jorgos
1969
Film
In a Year with 13 Moons
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978
Film
Room 666
Self
1985
Film
Effi Briest
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1974
Film
Germany in Autumn
Self (uncredited)
1978
Biographies
Self
1978
Film
Fox and His Friends
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
1975
Film
Photographer "Eise"
Self
2019
Film
Gods of the Plague
Pornokunde
1970
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
The City Tramp
Man #1 on Toilet
1966
Film
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Zucker
1972
Film
Whity
Saloon guest (uncredited)
1971
Die Wohngenossin
1975
Film
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Beware of a Holy Whore
Sascha
1971
Film
Haytabo
Courier
1971
Film
Love Is Colder Than Death
Franz
1970
Film
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Tenderness of the Wolves
Wittowski
1973
Film
Kamikaze '89
Police Lieutenant Jansen
1982
Film
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self (archive footage)
1992
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
End of the Commune?
Self (uncredited)
1970
Film
Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
1979
Film
Adolf and Marlene
Hermann
1977
Film
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976
Film
Rio das Mortes
Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
1971
Film
Supergirl
Man in Front of Shop Window
1971
Film
Shadow of Angels
Raoul
1976
Film
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self
1981
Film
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Self
2005
Film
A German Youth
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
The Niklashausen Journey
Schwarzer Mönch
1970
Film
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
the pimp
1968
Film
Fassbinder's Women
Self (Archive footage)
2000
Film
The American Soldier
Franz Walsch (uncredited)
1976
Film
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Self
1987
Film
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
Self
1976
Film
The Little Chaos
Franz
1966
Film
Baal
Baal
1970
Film
Bremen Freedom
Rumpf
1972
Little Godard
Second Director
1978
Film
1 Berlin-Harlem
Self
1974
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Self
1971
Film
The Ancestress
Jaromir
1971
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Self
1980
Film
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2002
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Self
1975
Film
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Bauer
1971
Tonys Freunde
Mallard
1969
Film
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Soldier
1968
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
Mechaniker
1969
Film
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
1984
Film
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Self
1982
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
Heini
1969
Polnischer Sommer
Babiuch
1981
Film
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Self
1980
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Self (archive footage)
2002
Atlètic Club Banyoles
self
2007
Film
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Self
1978
Film
The Wizard of Babylon
Self
1982
Film
Mathias Kneißl
Flecklbauer
1971