Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1945-05-31 ( 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.

Movies

Fassbinder 2015-04-30
Kamikaze 1989 1982-07-16
Room 666 1982-06-01
Veronika Voss 1982-05-13
Lili Marleen 1981-01-14
Little Godard 1978-06-08
Effi Briest 1974-06-20
Bremen Freedom 1972-11-12
The Ancestress 1971-12-20
Whity 1971-06-02
Supergirl 1971-05-14
Rio das Mortes 1971-02-15
Haytabo 1971-01-01
Baal 1970-01-07
Katzelmacher 1969-10-07
Tonys Freunde 1969-07-09
The City Tramp 1966-01-01