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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (born May 31, 1945, Bad Wörishofen, Germany—died June 10, 1982, Munich, West Germany) was a German motion-picture and theatre director, writer, and actor who was an important force in postwar West German cinema. His socially and politically conscious films often explore themes of oppression and despair.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasbɪndɐ] ⓘ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, [1] was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement.
- Love Is Colder than Death (1969) Made when Fassbinder was just 24, Love Is Colder than Death was his first feature and the first of 3 gangster films he made within a year, followed by Gods of the Plague and The American Soldier (both 1970).
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) Bitter indeed. In one of his earliest melodramas, adapted from his play, the titular fashion designer, who abuses her masochistic, mute maid, falls for a female model, and embarks on a relationship that seems doomed from the outset.
- Effi Briest (1974) Effi Briest was Fassbinder’s first film based on a period story, in this case Theodor Fontane’s 1896 novel, which he had wanted to adapt many years earlier.
- Fear Eats the Soul (1974) This love story – and despite the considerable human unkindness on show, this is definitely a love story – is a great starting point for newcomers to Fassbinder’s work.
Apr 6, 2017 · Like Godard, Fassbinder flaunted his influences through homage and citation – to Jean-Pierre Melville, Bertolt Brecht and Godard in his early crime films, to Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky in The Third Generation (1979), to many American directors throughout his career.
May 31, 2021 · German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder is widely regarded as one of the leading figures of the endlessly influential New German Cinema movement. Over the course of his illustrious career, Fassbinder produced several masterpieces like Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Fox and His Friends among others.
Jan 27, 2024 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a trailblazing German filmmaker active in the 1960s and '70s. He made features for only about sixteen years, but in that time directed a whopping thirty films, plus a...
His most famous works include The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Fox and His Friends (1974), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Fassbinder’s films often feature dark themes—depression, suicide, murder—and are usually shot in black-and-white film stock.
