Directing

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder is best known for World on a Wire, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day and NDR Talk Show. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born on May 31, 1945. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died on June 10, 1982 at the age of 37.

Born: May 31, 1945
Place of birth: Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Died: June 10, 1982 (37 years old)

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.