Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1945-05-31

Deathday 1982-06-10 (37 years old)

Place of Birth Bad Wörishofen, Germany

Also Known As Rainer W. Fassbinder, R. W. Fassbinder, 라이너 베르너 파스빈더, Franz Walsch, Ра́йнер Ве́рнер Фасби́ндер, راينر فاسبيندر, Ράινερ Βέρνερ Φασμπίντερ, 赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德, რაინერ უერნერ ფასბინდერი, ライナー・ヴェルナー・ファスビンダー

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Biography

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career that lasted 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

Director

1982
Veronika Voss

as Director

1982
Querelle

as Director

1981
Lili Marleen

as Director

1981
Lola

as Director

1981
Theater in Trance

as Director

1980
1979
1978
Germany in Autumn

as Director

1978
Despair

as Director

1978
1977
Chinese Roulette

as Director

1977
Women in New York

as Director

1976
Satan’s Brew

as Director

1975
1975
Fear of Fear

as Director

1975
1974
1974
Effi Briest

as Director

1974
Martha

as Director

1974
Nora Helmer

as Director

1973
Jail Bait

as Director

1973
World on a Wire

as Director

1972
Bremen Freedom

as Director

1971
1971
Whity

as Director

1971
1971
Rio das Mortes

as Director

1970
Gods of the Plague

as Director

1970
1970
1970
The Coffee House

as Director

1969
Katzelmacher

as Director

1966
Ein Platz für Günter

as Assistant Director

1966
The City Tramp

as Director

1966
The Little Chaos

as Director

1966
This Night

as Director

Actor

2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Fassbinder

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

as Self (archive footage)

2011
My Name Is Not Ali

as Self (archive footage)

2010
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

as Self (archive footage)

2008
2008
Back to Room 666

as Self (archive footage)

2006
Filmlegenden. Deutsch

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Filmlegenden. Deutsch

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

as Self (archive footage)

1984
The Last Trip to Harrisburg

as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)

1982
Kamikaze 1989

as Police Lieutenant Jansen

1982
Room 666

as Self

1982
Veronika Voss

as Kinobesucher (uncredited)

1981
1981
Lili Marleen

as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)

1980
Berlin Alexanderplatz

as uncredited

1979
1979
1978
Little Godard

as Second Director

1978
Germany in Autumn

as Self (uncredited)

1978
Lebensläufe

as Self

1976
1976
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

as Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)

1975
Fox and His Friends

as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf

1974
Effi Briest

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1974
1974
1974
Am laufenden Band

as Self - Guest

1973
1972
1971
The Ancestress

as Jaromir

1971
Whity

as Saloon guest (uncredited)

1971
Mathias Kneißl

as Flecklbauer

1971
Supergirl

as Man in Front of Shop Window

1971
Rio das Mortes

as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)

1971
Haytabo

as Bote des Professors

1971
Dalli Dalli

as Self

1970
The Niklashausen Journey

as Schwarzer Mönch

1970
The American Soldier

as Franz Walsch (uncredited)

1970
Gods of the Plague

as Pornokunde

1970
End of the Commune?

as Self (uncredited)

1970
Baal

as Baal

1969
Katzelmacher

as Jorgos

1969
1969
Tonys Freunde

as Mallard

1966
1966
The City Tramp

as Man #1 on Toilet

1965
aspekte

as Self

Writer

2022
Peter von Kant

as Original Story

2013
2012
1982
Veronika Voss

as Screenplay

1982
Querelle

as Screenplay

1981
Lola

as Screenplay

1981
Lili Marleen

as Screenplay

1981
1980
1979
The Third Generation

as Screenplay

1978
Germany in Autumn

as Screenplay

1977
1976
Shadow of Angels

as Theatre Play

1976
Shadow of Angels

as Screenplay

1976
Satan’s Brew

as Writer

1975
1975
Fear of Fear

as Writer

1975
1974
Effi Briest

as Screenplay

1974
Martha

as Screenplay

1974
La Paloma

as Writer

1973
Jail Bait

as Writer

1973
Jail Bait

as Screenplay

1973
World on a Wire

as Screenplay

1972
Bremen Freedom

as Author

1971
Whity

as Screenplay

1971
Rio das Mortes

as Writer

1971
1970
1970
Gods of the Plague

as Screenplay

1970
1970
1970
1969
Katzelmacher

as Screenplay

1969
Katzelmacher

as Theatre Play

1966
The City Tramp

as Writer

1966
1966
This Night

as Writer

Editor

1982
Querelle

as Editor

1981
Lili Marleen

as Editor

1981
Lola

as Editor

1978
Despair

as Editor

1978
1971
Whity

as Editor

1971
Rio das Mortes

as Editor

1970
1969
Katzelmacher

as Editor

1966
The City Tramp

as Editor

Producer

1982
Veronika Voss

as Co-Producer

1981
Lola

as Line Producer

1979
1978
1978
1977
Adolf and Marlene

as Producer

1975
1974
1974
Effi Briest

as Producer

1973
1970
Gods of the Plague

as Producer

1970

Art

1978
In a Year with 13 Moons

as Art Direction

1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

as Production Design

1970
The American Soldier

as Production Design

1969
Katzelmacher

as Production Design

Camera

1979
The Third Generation

as Director of Photography

1979
The Third Generation

as Camera Operator

1978
In a Year with 13 Moons

as Director of Photography

Creator

1980
1973
World on a Wire

as Creator

Sound

1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons

as Original Music Composer

Crew

1966
This Night

as Cinematography