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.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Eugen)
Shadow of Angels
(Raoul)
Veronika Voss
(Kinobesucher (uncredited))
Gods of the Plague
(Pornokunde)
Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
(Self)
Al Capone im deutschen Wald
(Heini)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
(Self (archive footage))
Katzelmacher
(Jorgos)
The Wizard of Babylon
(Self)
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
(Self)
Beware of a Holy Whore
(Sascha)
Kamikaze 1989
(Police Lieutenant Jansen)
Love Is Colder Than Death
(Franz)
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
(Zucker)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
(Self (archive footage))
Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(Self)
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
(Self (archive footage))
The City Tramp
(Man #1 on Toilet)
Tenderness of the Wolves
(Wittowski)
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
(the pimp)
The Little Chaos
(Franz)
The American Soldier
(Franz Walsch (uncredited))
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
(Self (also interviewee) (uncredited))
Bremen Freedom
(Rumpf)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
(Self)
Bourbon Street Blues
(Writer)
Baal
(Baal)
The Ancestress
(Jaromir)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
(Self)
Little Godard
(Second Director)
The Niklashausen Journey
(Schwarzer Mönch)
1 Berlin-Harlem
(Self)
Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
(Soldier)
Mathias Kneißl
(Flecklbauer)
Supergirl
(Man in Front of Shop Window)
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
(Bauer)
Die Wohngenossin
Whity
(Saloon guest (uncredited))
Haytabo
(Bote des Professors)
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
(Self (archive footage))
Fassbinder
(Self (archive footage))
Back to Room 666
(Self (archive footage))
Polnischer Sommer
(Babiuch)
Lili Marleen
(Günther Weissenborn (uncredited))
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
(Self)
Room 666
(Self)
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
(Self)
Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
(Self)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Peddler)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
(Self)
Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
(Self)
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Self (archive footage))
Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
(Mechaniker)
Tonys Freunde
(Mallard)
My Name Is Not Ali
(Self (archive footage))
Rio das Mortes
(Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited))
Atlètic Club Banyoles
(self)
Effi Briest
(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"
(Self)
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Am laufenden Band
(Self - Guest)
Stars in der Manege
(Self)
Lebensläufe
(Self)
Dalli Dalli
(Self)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
(Self)
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
(Self (archive footage))
NDR Talk Show
(Self)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(uncredited)
Je später der Abend
(Self)
aspekte
(Self)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Original Music Composer)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Author)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Production Design)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Producer)
Lili Marleen
(Editor)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Director)
Lili Marleen
(Director)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Director)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Idea)
The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Editor)
Effi Briest
(Screenplay)
Effi Briest
(Producer)
Martha
(Director)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
(Screenplay)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
(Screenplay)
Effi Briest
(Director)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
(Director)
Martha
(Screenplay)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
(Screenplay)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
(Editor)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
(Director)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
(Director)
Shadow of Angels
(Theatre Play)
Shadow of Angels
(Screenplay)
Lola
(Screenplay)
Lola
(Director)
Veronika Voss
(Director)
Lola
(Editor)
Veronika Voss
(Screenplay)
Gods of the Plague
(Editor)
Gods of the Plague
(Director)
Gods of the Plague
(Screenplay)
Katzelmacher
(Screenplay)
Katzelmacher
(Director)
Katzelmacher
(Editor)
Katzelmacher
(Production Design)
Katzelmacher
(Theatre Play)
Love Is Colder Than Death
(Screenplay)
Love Is Colder Than Death
(Director)
Love Is Colder Than Death
(Editor)
Beware of a Holy Whore
(Director)
Beware of a Holy Whore
(Writer)
Germany in Autumn
(Director)
Germany in Autumn
(Screenplay)
Chinese Roulette
(Writer)
Chinese Roulette
(Director)
In a Year with 13 Moons
(Director)
Despair
(Director)
Fox and His Friends
(Producer)
Fox and His Friends
(Writer)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
(Director)
Fox and His Friends
(Director)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
(Writer)
Satan’s Brew
(Director)
Satan’s Brew
(Writer)
Fear of Fear
(Director)
Fear of Fear
(Writer)
The American Soldier
(Director)
The American Soldier
(Writer)
Nora Helmer
(Director)
I Only Want You to Love Me
(Writer)
I Only Want You to Love Me
(Director)
Whity
(Director)
Whity
(Screenplay)
The Niklashausen Journey
(Director)
The Stationmaster’s Wife
(Director)
The Third Generation
(Director)
The Third Generation
(Producer)
The Third Generation
(Screenplay)
Ein Platz für Günter
(Assistant Director)
Tenderness of the Wolves
(Producer)
Jail Bait
(Writer)
The City Tramp
(Director)
The City Tramp
(Writer)
The Little Chaos
(Director)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
(Director)
Rio das Mortes
(Director)
Like a Bird on a Wire
(Director)
The Coffee House
(Director)
Bremen Freedom
(Director)
Women in New York
(Director)
In a Year with 13 Moons
(Art Direction)
Despair
(Editor)
Theater in Trance
(Director)
Rio das Mortes
(Writer)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
(Screenplay)
The Stationmaster’s Wife
(Writer)
In a Year with 13 Moons
(Writer)
Peter von Kant
(Original Story)
La Paloma
(Writer)
Beware of a Holy Whore
(Editor)
The City Tramp
(Editor)
The American Soldier
(Producer)
The Niklashausen Journey
(Writer)
Whity
(Editor)
The Coffee House
(Writer)
Gods of the Plague
(Producer)
The American Soldier
(Production Design)
The Little Chaos
(Writer)
The Niklashausen Journey
(Editor)
In a Year with 13 Moons
(Editor)
Bremen Freedom
(Author)
Lili Marleen
(Screenplay)
Frogman Katzelmacher
(Writer)
Jail Bait
(Screenplay)
In a Year with 13 Moons
(Director of Photography)
In a Year with 13 Moons
(Producer)
Jail Bait
(Director)
This Night
(Cinematography)
This Night
(Director)
This Night
(Writer)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
(Original Music Composer)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
(Producer)
The Stationmaster’s Wife
(Editor)
Theater in Trance
(Writer)
Like a Bird on a Wire
(Writer)
Rio das Mortes
(Editor)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
(Writer)
Garbage, the City and Death
(Theatre Play)
Querelle
(Editor)
Querelle
(Screenplay)
Querelle
(Director)
Lola
(Line Producer)
Veronika Voss
(Co-Producer)
The Third Generation
(Director of Photography)
The Third Generation
(Camera Operator)
Adolf and Marlene
(Producer)
Spiel der Verlierer
(Producer)
Spiel der Verlierer
(Editor)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
(Producer)
World on a Wire
(Director)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(Director)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(Writer)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
(Writer)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
(Director)
World on a Wire
(Screenplay)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
(Producer)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
(Creator)
World on a Wire
(Creator)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(Creator)