Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982), German movie director and actor, was one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.

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May 31 - 1945 - June 10 - 1982 - German - Movie director - Actor - New German Cinema

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He was born in the Bavarian town of Bad Wörishofen. He died of a drug overdose at the age of 37. his death is often considered to mark the end of New German Cinema.

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Bavaria - Bad Wörishofen - Drug

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In his short life he not only made 43 films (including two shorts and the 15 1/2 hour Berlin Alexanderplatz), but he also worked as an actor (film and theatre), cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theatre manager.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz - Actor - Cameraman - Composer - Theatre manager

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Fassbinder's prodigious cinematic output is legendary. Over a period of years he made, on average, a film every hundred days. His intense discipline and phenonemnal creative energy when working were in violent contrast with the excesses of abasement and tortured relationships of his personal life with the people he drew around him in a surrogate family of actors, technicians and cameramen in a similar way to John Cassavetes

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