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German filmmaker, dramatist and actor
- 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.
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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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Writer: Fox and His Friends. Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor.
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- Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany
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- Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Aug 28, 2024 · 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.
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- 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.
- 'Ali: Fear Eats the Soul' Released: 1974. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul tells the story of the unlikely romance between Emmi (Brigitte Mira), a 60-year-old German widow, and Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant.
- 'The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant' Released: 1972. Set almost entirely in an apartment bedroom, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant delves into the turbulent love life of the titular character (Margit Carstensen), a successful but emotionally volatile designer.
- 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' Released: 1979. "You're not having an affair with me. I'm having an affair with you." Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) marries soldier Hermann (Klaus Löwitsch) during the dying days of World War II, only for him to later go missing on the eastern front.
- 'The Merchant of Four Seasons' Released: 1972. "The good die young, and people like you come back." The Merchant of Four Seasons is a character study of Hans Epp (Hans Hirschmüller), a former police officer and World War II veteran who has fallen on hard times.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was born into a cultured bourgeois family in the small Bavarian spa town Bad Wörishofen. Raised by his mother as an only child, the boy had only sporadic contact with his father, a doctor, after the divorce of his parents when he was five.
May 29, 2020 · Fassbinder is one of the most important film directors of Germany's post-WWII era. He died in 1982 at age 37, yet in his short life span he made 44 movies. While influenced by his predecessors,...
