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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    German filmmaker, playwright and actor

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  1. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasbɪndɐ] ⓘ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, [1] was a German filmmaker, actor, and dramatist. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. Versatile and prolific ...

  2. Jun 11, 1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the controversial and furiously prolific film maker most responsible for the resurgence of German cinema in the 1970's, was found dead yesterday at his home in Munich ...

  3. 95 Photos. Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and even antigay, he completed 44 ...

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    • Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany
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    • Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
  4. Jun 6, 2024 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder (born May 31, 1945, Bad Wörishofen, Germany—died June 10, 1982, Munich, West Germany) was a German motion-picture and theatre director, writer, and actor who was an important force in postwar West German cinema. His socially and politically conscious films often explore themes of oppression and despair.

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  5. May 31, 2011 · Clad in his ubiquitous black leather jacket and dark glasses, Fassbinder relished the role, becoming notorious for his provocative press statements and angering any number of groups, who accused ...

  6. Aug 19, 2013 · The German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died at the age of thirty-seven, in 1982, ... His first feature, “Love Is Colder Than Death,” from 1969, wasn’t an epoch-defining masterwork ...

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  8. Jun 10, 2007 · German Film Legend DW staff (jp) 06/10/2007 June 10, 2007 Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a pioneer of New German Cinema. Admired abroad but often reviled at home, he died 25 years ago at the age of 37.

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