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- Born: May 31, 1945Fandango: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography
- Birth place: Bad Worishofen Bavaria, GermanyFandango: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography
- Directorial film debut: 1969 with Love Is Colder Than DeathFandango: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography
- Died: June 10, 1982The Fassbinder Foundation: His Life
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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 LifeCareer
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 DirectorQuotes
"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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Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Amazon
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz - $90.00
Alfred Doblin's 1929 Berlin Alexanderplatz is a masterpiece of modern European literature. The first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce, it tells the sto...Amazon
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Querelle - $19.94
No Description Available.Genre: Foreign Film - GermanRating: UNRelease Date: 10-JUL-2001Media Type: DVDAmazon
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Whity - $19.98
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's seventh feature is a widescreen mix of hothouse southern gothic melodrama and edgy spaghetti western in sunbaked color. Whity (Günther Kaufmann, a long...Amazon
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The Fassbinder Collection II (Martha/In A Year With 13 Moons) - $29.98
MARTHAIN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONSHe has been called everything from a petty tyrant to the last great filmmaker of the 20th century. In little more than ten years, Rai...Amazon
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Timeline
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- 1945: Born May 31
- 1969: Love Is Colder Than Death - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1970: The Coffee House - IMDb Listing
- 1970: The American Soldier - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1971: Whity - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1971: Beware of a Holy Whore - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1972: The Merchant of Four Seasons - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1973: Jail Bait - IMDb Listing
- 1973: World on a Wire - IMDb Listing
- 1974: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1974: Martha - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1975: Like a Bird on a Wire - IMDb Listing
- 1975: Fear of Fear - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1976: Chinese Roulette - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1977: The Stationmaster's Wife - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1978: Germany in Autumn - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1978: Despair - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1979: The Third Generation - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1980: Berlin Alexanderplatz - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1981: Lili Marleen - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1981: Lola - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
- 1982: Querelle - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews



