Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career 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.
Filmography
Directing
Querelle
Veronika Voss
Lola
Theater in Trance
Lili Marleen
The Third Generation
The Marriage of Maria Braun
In a Year with 13 Moons
Despair
Germany in Autumn
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Women in New York
Chinese Roulette
The American Soldier
Satan’s Brew
I Only Want You to Love Me
Fear of Fear
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Fox and His Friends
Like a Bird on a Wire
Effi Briest
Martha
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Nora Helmer
Jail Bait
Bremen Freedom
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Beware of a Holy Whore
Whity
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Rio das Mortes
The Niklashausen Journey
Gods of the Plague
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
The Coffee House
Love Is Colder Than Death
Katzelmacher
The Little Chaos
This Night
Ein Platz für Günter
