Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Birthday: 1945-05-31 | Place of Birth: Bad Wörishofen, GermanyRainer 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
Acting
Role
as Self (archive footage)
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)
as Police Lieutenant Jansen
as Self
as Self
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
as Wittowski
as Saloon guest (uncredited)
as Pornokunde
as Jorgos
