- Birthday
- 1945-05-31
- Deathday
- 1982-06-10
- Place of Birth
- Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DirectingBiography
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...
