Rainer Werner Fassbinder
German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)
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Updated 2026-06-21
In under fifteen years, Fassbinder directed over 40 films—Hollywood melodrama sliced with avant-garde edges and a cold eye on how feelings get exploited. He made the New German Cinema move, then died at 37 from cocaine and barbiturates, closing the era with him.
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Fassbinder started leading the Anti-Theater troupe in 1967, staging early work before his first feature, the gangster film Love Is Colder Than Death, arrived in 1969. He broke through domestically with The Merchant of Four Seasons in 1972, then internationally with Ali: Fear Eats the Soul in 1974. His films pulled from post-war German wreckage—Nazism's aftermath, the economic miracle, the Red Army Faction—and fixed on the margins: migrant workers, prisoners, gay lives. The Marriage of Maria Braun in 1979, tracking a woman's rise and collapse after World War II, became his biggest success. He k…
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