Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder was an actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who was active in the 1970s.Fandango: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography
  • Early Years

    Fassbinder's parents divorced when he was only five years old, leaving him to be raised as an only child of a single mother. His mother worked as a translator, and Rainer said that he would go to the movies "five times a week, often three films a day" to enable her to work.The Fassbinder Foundation: His Life
  • Career

    Fassbinder started his career in Germany, with a company of his own called Anti-Theater in 1968, after being rejected from the Berlin Film School.The Fassbinder Foundation: His Life Fandango: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography Fassbinder directed more than forty feature films before his death at age 36. He also did a number of TV specials, and one TV mini-series, along with acting in at least nine of his own films.Senses of Cinema: Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Director

  • Notable Works

    • 1973: Martha
    • 1976: Chinese Roulette
    • 1979: The Marriage of Maria Braun

  • Quotes

    "I let the audience feel and think."QuoteLucy.com: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

    "Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression."QuoteLucy.com: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

    "What I would like is to make Hollywood movies, that is, movies as wonderful and universal, but at the same time not as hypocritical, as Hollywood.QuoteLucy.com: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

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