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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
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Spécial cinéma
Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema...
German Film Award
Dalli Dalli
Grimme Award
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
aspekte
A 30-minute weekly cultural magazine program. The head of aspekte, Wolgang Herles, describes the program as fol...
Stars in the Ring
Every year there was a Gala of the Stars at the Zirkus Krone in Munich.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds h...
Am laufenden Band
Je später der Abend
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children of...
Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has...
Wim Wenders, Desperado
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is consi...
Lili Marleen
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish compos...
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
Legends recount legends who dominated German cinema in the 1940s and 1950s – with stories that are funny, drama...
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must...
Veronika Voss
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz,...
Baal
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on...
Room 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go...
Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime synd...
Gods of the Plague
After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld....
Beware of a Holy Whore
Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a p...
Kamikaze '89
In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detec...
Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based...
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to...
Biographies
A weekly sit-down with Hermann Schreiber and Peter W. Jansen with a figure of German cinema.
Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic tow...
Germany in Autumn
Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month peri...
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren...
Whity
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 1878. The fath...
Katzelmacher
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a...
Bremen Freedom
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a...
Supergirl
A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She wears only an...
The Little Chaos
Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.
Adolf and Marlene
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Ge...
Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boy...