2725

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Biography
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.
Known For

The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Peddler

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Eugen

Kamikaze 1989
as Police Lieutenant Jansen

Lili Marleen
as Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)

Veronika Voss
as Kinobesucher (uncredited)

Room 666
as Self

Fox and His Friends
as Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf

The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Zucker

Baal
as Baal

Effi Briest
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)