Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Personal Info

Known For Directing

Known Credits 112

Gender Male

Birthday May 31, 1945

Day of Death June 10, 1982 (37 years old)

Place of Birth Bad Wörishofen, Germany

Also Known As

  • Rainer W. Fassbinder
  • R. W. Fassbinder
  • 라이너 베르너 파스빈더
  • Franz Walsch
  • Ра́йнер Ве́рнер Фасби́ндер
  • راينر فاسبيندر
  • Ράινερ Βέρνερ Φασμπίντερ
  • 赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德
  • რაინერ უერნერ ფასბინდერი
  • ライナー・ヴェルナー・ファスビンダー

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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.

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.

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