Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    May 31, 1945 (79 years old) in Bad Wörishofen, Germany

    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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    NDR Talk ShowNDR Talk Show
    Spécial cinémaSpécial cinéma
    Dalli DalliDalli Dalli
    Stars in the RingStars in the Ring
    Grimme Awards CeremonyGrimme Awards Ceremony

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