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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

May 31, 1945 - Jun 10, 1982 (37 years old) in Bad Wörishofen, Germany

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.

Known For

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Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Zucker
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Eugen
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
uncredited
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Lili Marleen
Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
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Fox and His Friends
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Peddler
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Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Self (archive footage)
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Effi Briest
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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