Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) was a German director, screenwriter, and actor, and one of the most prolific and influential figures of the New German Cinema. After working in Munich's experimental theatre scene in the late 1960s, he transferred his collaborative ensemble methods to film, completing more than forty features before his death at thirty-seven. His work fused Brechtian distancing with the visual textures of Hollywood melodrama, examining postwar German guilt, sexual politics, and the violence of ordinary social life. His acclaimed films include The Marriage of Maria Braun, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fox and His Friends, and the fifteen-hour television epic Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Films in the catalogue
- Love Is Colder Than Death
- Gods of the Plague
- Katzelmacher
- The Niklashausen Journey
- The American Soldier
- Rio das Mortes
- Beware of a Holy Whore
- The Merchant of Four Seasons
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
- Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
- World on a Wire
- Martha
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Effi Briest
- Fox and His Friends
- Satan's Brew
- Chinese Roulette
- Fear of Fear
- I Only Want Love
- Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
- The Stationmaster's Wife
- In a Year With 13 Moons
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- The Third Generation
- Berlin Alexanderplatz