Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as PeddlerMaria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in...
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as EugenEmmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her...
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Lili Marleen
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a...
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Fox and His Friends
as Franz "Fox" BieberkopfFox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
as WittowskiA German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between...
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Veronika Voss
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr....
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Germany in Autumn
as Self (uncredited)Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
as ZuckerHans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family,...
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Gods of the Plague
as PornokundeA man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
as SaschaTensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
as FranzSmall-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a...
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Room 666
as SelfDuring the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at...
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Effi Briest
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small,...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Supergirl
as Man in Front of Shop WindowIn this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another...
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Katzelmacher
as JorgosA group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment...
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The Little Chaos
as FranzTheo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a...
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Kamikaze 1989
as Police Lieutenant JansenIn a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the...
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The American Soldier
as Franz Walsch (uncredited)Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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The Niklashausen Journey
as Schwarzer MönchCan a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather...
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Rio das Mortes
as Hannas Tanzpartner (uncredited)Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried...
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Baal
as BaalBaal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
as Self (archive footage)When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular...
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Shadow of Angels
as RaoulBeautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She...
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
as the pimpThree sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long...
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Whity
as Saloon guest (uncredited)"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in...
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The City Tramp
as Man #1 on ToiletA tramp finds a gun lying in the street.
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the...
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Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
as Self (archive footage)Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift...
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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
as BauerAn intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration....
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Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
as SelfDocumentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.
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End of the Commune?
as Self (uncredited)"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about...
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Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
as SoldierA young man named Jürgen joins the military. As much as he tries to make a heroic career as a...
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves...
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Bremen Freedom
as RumpfA very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture...
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Fassbinder
as Self (archive footage)A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly...
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
as Self (also interviewee) (uncredited)
1 Berlin-Harlem
as SelfAn African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white)...
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My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the...
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Self (archive footage)A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria...
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Mathias Kneißl
as FlecklbauerInspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from...
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The Last Trip to Harrisburg
as Voice of Man and Woman in Train (voice)A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
as uncredited“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and...
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Haytabo
as Bote des ProfessorsA biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
as SelfRainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives...
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as SelfBBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
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Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as SelfA documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master...
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The Wizard of Babylon
as SelfDocumentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming...
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Photographer "Eise"
as SelfA portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist,...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
as uncreditedIn late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However,...
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