Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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.

Cast

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Shadow of Angels

Kinobesucher (uncredited)

Gods of the Plague

Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder

Al Capone im deutschen Wald

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

Self (archive footage)

The Wizard of Babylon

Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

Beware of a Holy Whore

Police Lieutenant Jansen

Love Is Colder Than Death

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)

Fox and His Friends

Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf

Germany in Autumn

Self (uncredited)

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

Self (archive footage)

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

Self (archive footage)

Man #1 on Toilet

Tenderness of the Wolves

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

The Little Chaos

The American Soldier

Franz Walsch (uncredited)

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

Bourbon Street Blues

Fassbinder in Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

Second Director

The Niklashausen Journey

Schwarzer Mönch

1 Berlin-Harlem

Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt

Mathias Kneißl

Man in Front of Shop Window

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

Die Wohngenossin

Saloon guest (uncredited)

Bote des Professors

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Back to Room 666

Self (archive footage)

Polnischer Sommer

Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume

Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

Self (archive footage)

Frei bis zum nächsten Mal

My Name Is Not Ali

Self (archive footage)

Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)

Atlètic Club Banyoles

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

End of the Commune?

Self (uncredited)

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Self (archive footage)

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

Self (archive footage)

Photographer "Eise"

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Der Theatermensch

Self (archive footage)

Fassbinder's Women

Self (Archive footage)

Crew

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Original Music Composer, Production Design, Producer, Director, Screenplay

Editor, Director, Screenplay

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Director, Idea, Editor

Screenplay, Producer, Director

Director, Screenplay

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer, Producer

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

Screenplay, Director, Editor

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Screenplay, Director, Producer

Shadow of Angels

Theatre Play, Screenplay

Screenplay, Director, Editor, Line Producer

Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer

Gods of the Plague

Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer

Screenplay, Director, Editor, Production Design, Theatre Play

Love Is Colder Than Death

Screenplay, Director, Editor

Beware of a Holy Whore

Director, Writer, Editor

Germany in Autumn

Director, Screenplay

Chinese Roulette

Writer, Director

In a Year with 13 Moons

Director, Art Direction, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer

Director, Editor

Fox and His Friends

Producer, Writer, Director

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

The American Soldier

Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Songs

I Only Want You to Love Me

Writer, Director

Director, Screenplay, Editor

The Niklashausen Journey

Director, Writer, Editor

The Stationmaster’s Wife

Director, Writer, Editor

The Third Generation

Director, Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator

Ein Platz für Günter

Assistant Director

Tenderness of the Wolves

Writer, Screenplay, Director

Director, Writer, Editor

The Little Chaos

Director, Writer

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

Director, Screenplay

Director, Writer, Editor

Like a Bird on a Wire

Director, Writer

The Coffee House

Director, Writer

Director, Author

Women in New York

Theater in Trance

Director, Writer

Frogman Katzelmacher

Cinematography, Director, Writer

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Garbage, the City and Death

Editor, Screenplay, Director

Adolf and Marlene

Spiel der Verlierer

Producer, Editor

The Marriage of Maria Braun