Actor

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Directing

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

3.4

Moderate attention

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Movies: 86Series: 9Crew credits: 53

TMDB ID: 2725

IMDb ID: nm0001202

Known for: Directing

Born: May 31, 1945

Died: June 10, 1982

Age: 37

Place of birth: Bad Wörishofen, Germany

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1959 - 2024

Years active: 66

Average TMDB rating: 6.56

Wikidata: Q44426

Also known as

Rainer W. Fassbinder • R. W. Fassbinder • Franz Walsch • 雷纳·沃纳·法斯班德

Other jobs

Director (29)Writer (10)Screenplay (5)Editor (4)Producer (2)Cinematography (1)Original Story (1)Theatre Play (1)

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Biography

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career 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.