Rainer Werner Fassbinder

★ Directing #1,108

1945 - 1982 (age 37) • Directing

Born: 5/31/1945 in Bad Wörishofen, Germany

Died: 6/10/1982 (age 37)

Known for: Directing

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

★ Directing #1,108

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.

Known For

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

77%

Original Music Composer

1974

The Marriage of Maria Braun

74%

Editor

1979

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

74%

Director

1972

Querelle

66%

Editor

1982

Veronika Voss

72%

Director

1982

Fox and His Friends

72%

Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf

1975

Lola

69%

Screenplay

1981

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

64%

Writer

2000

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

2024

Peter von Kant

58%

Original Story

2022

Wim Wenders, Desperado

77%

Self (archive footage)

2020

Photographer "Eise"

Self

2019

A German Youth

71%

Self (archive footage)

2015

Fassbinder

62%

Self (archive footage)

2015

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

64%

Self (archive footage)

2015

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

Self (archive footage)

2014

Frogman Katzelmacher

Writer

2013

Garbage, the City and Death

27%

Theatre Play

2012

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

Self (archive footage)

2012

My Name Is Not Ali

63%

Self (archive footage)

2011

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

58%

Self (archive footage)

2010

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

67%

Self (archive footage)

2008

Back to Room 666

55%

Self (archive footage)

2008

The Marriage of Maria Braun

80%

Writer

2008

Atlètic Club Banyoles

self

2007

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

80%

Self (archive footage)

2006