Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-05-31 (37 years old)

Deathday

1982-06-10

Place of Birth

Bad Wörishofen, Germany

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 b...

Acting

1976

1982

Veronika Voss

as Kinobesucher (uncredited)

1970

Gods of the Plague

as Pornokunde

2008

1969

Katzelmacher

as Jorgos

1982

Kamikaze '89

as Police Lieutenant Jansen

1984

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)

1975

Fox and His Friends

as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf

1978

Germany in Autumn

as Self (uncredited)

2014

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

as Self (archive footage)

1992

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

as Self (archive footage)

1966

The City Tramp

as Man #1 on Toilet

1973

1966

1970

The American Soldier

as Franz Walsch (uncredited)

1976

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

as Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)

1972

1970

Baal

as Baal

1971

The Ancestress

as Jaromir

2002

Fassbinder in Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

1978

Little Godard

as Second Director

1970

The Niklashausen Journey

as Schwarzer Mönch

1974

1971

Mathias Kneißl

as Flecklbauer

1971

Supergirl

as Man in Front of Shop Window

1971

Whity

as Saloon guest (uncredited)

1971

Haytabo

as Bote des Professors

2015

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Fassbinder

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Back to Room 666

as Self (archive footage)

1981

1981

Lili Marleen

as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)

1982

Room 666

as Self

1969

Tonys Freunde

as Mallard

2011

My Name Is Not Ali

as Self (archive footage)

1971

Rio das Mortes

as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)

1974

Effi Briest

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1970

End of the Commune?

as Self (uncredited)

2020

Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)

2010

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1974

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

as Original Music Composer

1974

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

as Production Design

1981

Lili Marleen

as Editor

1981

Lili Marleen

as Director

1974

Effi Briest

as Screenplay

1974

Effi Briest

as Producer

1974

Martha

as Director

1974

Effi Briest

as Director

1974

Martha

as Screenplay

1976

Shadow of Angels

as Theatre Play

1976

Shadow of Angels

as Screenplay

1981

Lola

as Screenplay

1981

Lola

as Director

1982

Veronika Voss

as Director

1981

Lola

as Editor

1982

Veronika Voss

as Screenplay

1970

1970

1970

Gods of the Plague

as Screenplay

1969

Katzelmacher

as Screenplay

1969

Katzelmacher

as Director

1969

Katzelmacher

as Editor

1969

Katzelmacher

as Production Design

1969

Katzelmacher

as Theatre Play

1970

1971

1978

1978

Germany in Autumn

as Screenplay

1977

1977

Chinese Roulette

as Director

1978

Despair

as Director

1975

1975

1975

1976

Satan’s Brew

as Director

1976

1975

Fear of Fear

as Director

1975

Fear of Fear

as Writer

1970

1974

Nora Helmer

as Director

1971

Whity

as Director

1971

Whity

as Screenplay

1979

1979

1979

1966

Ein Platz für Günter

as Assistant Director

1973

Jail Bait

as Writer

1966

The City Tramp

as Director

1966

1966

The Little Chaos

as Director

1971

1971

Rio das Mortes

as Director

1975

1970

The Coffee House

as Director

1972

Bremen Freedom

as Director

1977

1978

In a Year with 13 Moons

as Art Direction

1978

Despair

as Editor

1981

1971

1971

2022

Peter von Kant

as Original Story

1974

La Paloma

as Writer

1966

1970

1971

Whity

as Editor

1970

1970

1970

The American Soldier

as Production Design

1966

1972

1981

Lili Marleen

as Screenplay

1973

Jail Bait

as Screenplay

1978

In a Year with 13 Moons

as Director of Photography

1973

Jail Bait

as Director

1966

This Night

as Cinematography

1966

This Night

as Director

1966

This Night

as Writer

1972

The Merchant of Four Seasons

as Original Music Composer

1981

1971

2012

1982

Querelle

as Editor

1982

Querelle

as Screenplay

1982

Querelle

as Director

1981

Lola

as Line Producer

1982

Veronika Voss

as Co-Producer

1979

The Third Generation

as Director of Photography

1979

The Third Generation

as Camera Operator

1977

1978

1978

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