Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Born in Bad Wörishofen, Germany — May 31 1945• Died Jun 10 1982
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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…
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Credits
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Dalli Dalli
Self
German Film Award
Self
Stars in the Ring
Self
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest
World on a Wire
Directing
Je später der Abend
Self
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Writing
Querelle
Editing
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Self (archive footage)
Lola
Writing
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Eugen
Despair
Directing
Lili Marleen
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
Katzelmacher
Jorgos
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Peddler
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Writing
Fox and His Friends
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Germany in Autumn
Self (uncredited)
Effi Briest
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Kamikaze '89
Police Lieutenant Jansen
Room 666
Self
Veronika Voss
Kinobesucher (uncredited)
Nora Helmer
Directing
Satan’s Brew
Directing
Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
Whity
Saloon guest (uncredited)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Writing
Chinese Roulette
Writing
Jail Bait
Writing
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Writing
The Third Generation
Directing
The Coffee House
Directing
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Zucker
Peter von Kant
Writing
Baal
Baal
Martha
Directing
Haytabo
Courier
La Paloma
Writing
In a Year with 13 Moons
Directing
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Directing
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Directing
Gods of the Plague
Pornokunde
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Soldier
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
Mathias Kneißl
Flecklbauer
Tonys Freunde
Mallard
Love Is Colder Than Death
Franz
1 Berlin-Harlem
Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self (archive footage)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
Fear of Fear
Directing
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
End of the Commune?
Self (uncredited)
I Only Want You to Love Me
Writing
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self (archive footage)
Adolf and Marlene
Hermann
Beware of a Holy Whore
Sascha
Bremen Freedom
Rumpf
The Niklashausen Journey
Schwarzer Mönch
Shadow of Angels
Raoul
Spiel der Verlierer
Production
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
The American Soldier
Franz Walsch (uncredited)
Little Godard
Second Director
Supergirl
Man in Front of Shop Window
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
Rio das Mortes
Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)
A German Youth
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder's Women
Self (Archive footage)
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Self
Women in New York
Directing
Garbage, the City and Death
Writing
Tenderness of the Wolves
Wittowski
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
the pimp
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
Heini
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Self
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Self
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Directing
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Self
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)
The Wizard of Babylon
Self
The Ancestress
Jaromir
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Self (archive footage)
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Bauer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Self
The City Tramp
Man #1 on Toilet
Die Wohngenossin
The Little Chaos
Franz
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Self
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Self (archive footage)
Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self
Like a Bird on a Wire
Directing
Theater in Trance
Directing
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Writing
Atlètic Club Banyoles
self
Photographer "Eise"
Self
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Self
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
This Night
Crew
Polnischer Sommer
Babiuch
Frogman Katzelmacher
Writing
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
Mechaniker
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch
Self (archive footage)
Ein Platz für Günter
Directing