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Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Defining Films
Profile
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasbɪndɐ] ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor.
In Their Own Words
I love the way Fassbinder makes films. I try to make my films in the same spirit as Fassbinder.
On Martha (, WGer, 112 mins · Las Películas de Pedro Almodóvar: 1980-2007 by Agustín Lardín (cited in Nuria Vidal's 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Master of Melodrama')
Filmography (45)
Querelle
Querelle (, WGer/France, 106 mins
Querelle (, WGer/France, 106 mins
Veronika Voss
Theatre in a Trance (, WGer, 91 mins
Theatre in a Trance (, WGer, 91 mins
Lola (, WGer, 113 mins
Lola (, WGer, 113 mins
Lili Marleen (, WGer/Italy, 120 mins
Lili Marleen (, WGer/Italy, 120 mins
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Third Generation
Germany in Autumn
The Marriage of Maria Braun
In a Year with 13 Moons
Despair
Women in New York
Bolweiser
Bolweiser
I Only Want You to Love Me
Satan’s Brew
Chinese Roulette
Fear of Fear
Mother K ü sters’ Trip to Heaven
Mother K ü sters’ Trip to Heaven
Like a Bird on the Wire
Like a Bird on the Wire
Effi Briest (, WGer, 141 mins
Effi Briest (, WGer, 141 mins
Fox and his Friends
Martha (, WGer, 112 mins
Martha (, WGer, 112 mins
Nora Helmer (, WGer, 101 mins
Nora Helmer (, WGer, 101 mins
Fear Eats the Soul
World on a Wire
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Wild Game
Bremen Coffee
Bremen Coffee
“Eight Hours Are Not a Day” (“ Acht Stunden sind kein Tag “)
“Eight Hours Are Not a Day” (“ Acht Stunden sind kein Tag “)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
The Coffee House
Beware of a Holy Whore
The Nicklashausen Journey
The Nicklashausen Journey
Whitey (, WGer, 95 mins
Whitey (, WGer, 95 mins
The American Soldier
Rios Das Mortes (, WGer, 84 mins
Rios Das Mortes (, WGer, 84 mins
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Love is Colder Than Death
Katzelmacher
Gods of the Plague
Why does Herr R. Run Amok?
The Little Chaos
The City Tramp
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul