Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982)
Alias:
Franz Walsch
R. W. Fassbinder
Rainer W. Fassbinder
Ράινερ Βέρνερ Φασμπίντερ
Ра́йнер Ве́рнер Фасби́ндер
راينر فاسبيندر
რაინერ უერნერ ფასბინდერი
ライナー・ヴェルナー・ファスビンダー
赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德
라이너 베르너 파스빈더
Birthplace:
Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Born:
May 31, 1945
Died:
June 10, 1982
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.