As Actor
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005
5.0
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Acting
Born
May 31, 1945
Place of Birth
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Deceased
June 10, 1982
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 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.
The Filmography
As Actor
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002
5.9
As Writer
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
2000
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Querelle
1982
6.6
As Actor
The Wizard of Babylon
1982
3.5
As Actor
Kamikaze '89
1982
5.5
As Actor
Room 666
1982
6.5
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Veronika Voss
1982
7.2
As Director, As Writer
Lola
1981
7.0
As Director, As Writer
Lili Marleen
1981
6.4
As Director, As Writer
The Third Generation
1979
6.1
As Director
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979
7.4
As Director
Despair
1978
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Germany in Autumn
1978
6.2
As Actor, As Writer
Shadow of Angels
1976
4.0
As Director, As Writer
Fear of Fear
1975
6.3
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Fox and His Friends
1975
7.2
As Director, As Writer
Like a Bird on a Wire
1975
5.8
As Writer
La Paloma
1974
6.0
As Director, As Writer
Effi Briest
1974
6.7