Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

May 31, 1945

Bad Wörishofen, Germany

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 in...

Filmography

Berlin Alexanderplatz
14 Episode s . as uncredited
Berlin Alexanderplatz
14 Episode s . as uncredited
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
2 Episode s . as Self (archive footage)
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
2 Episode s . as Self (archive footage)

Created Shows

Berlin Alexanderplatz
14 Episode s . In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
14 Episode s . In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
5 Episode s . Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
5 Episode s . Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.
World on a Wire
2 Episode s . Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.
World on a Wire
2 Episode s . Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

World on a Wire

World on a Wire