Highlighted works
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Fassbinder’s glorious re-working of Hollywood noir, about a man who becomes a contract killer.
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Set in the Third Reich, this forbidden love story focuses on recording star Willie Bunterberg.
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Hanna Schygulla gives a star performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, as a German woman who struggles to rebuild her life after the Second World War.
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An exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontane’s 1896 novel, about a 17-year-old forced into marriage with an older man.
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Fantastically vulgar update of The Blue Angel (1930) set in late 1950s West Germany.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.
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Overcome by anxiety, a middle-class wife and mother struggles to conform.
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Colourful farce centring on a group of bourgeois self-styled terrorists.
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Fassbinder’s international breakthrough is an unconventional love story with devastating emotional power.
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This heart-rending tale was Fassbinder’s first venture into popular melodrama.
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In this funny and sad tale, Fox wins the lottery and falls in love with ‘posh and prissy’ Eugen.
Filmography
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Director
2017
Co-writer
2015
on-screen participant
2009
cast member
2008
GEGENSCHUSS - AUFSTAND DER FILMEMACHER
on-screen participant
2007
Pol
2004
a man of the world
2002
judge
2000
Director
Screenplay1998
Dr Bohm
1997
Police Psychologist
1996
Director
Screenplay1996
Dr. Hassler
1995
Dr Strasse
1994
Müller II
1993
Director
Producer
Script1992
Max Brunovich
1992
priest
1990
Director
Script1989
cast member
1989
cast member
1987
Director
Script
cast member1987
Director
1987
OSSEGG ODER DIE WAHRHEIT ÜBER HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
cast member
1986
AUF EHRE UND GEWISSEN (1940-1947)
cast member
1985
Director
1984
Der FALL BACHMEIER - KEINE ZEIT FÜR TRÄNEN
Director
Script1983
Director
1982
cast member
1981
Taschner
1981
Völker
1980
Ein HAMMER AUF DEN KOPF KANN DIE SEELE VERLETZEN
Otto Lüders
1980
cast member
1980
Otto Luders
1980
Lawyer
1979
Director
1979
Gerhard Gast
1979
cast member
1978
Director
Screenplay1978
Der KLEINE GODARD AN DAS KURATORIUM JUNGER DEUTSCHER FILM
cast member
1978
Senkenberg
1978
doctor
1977
ZU BÖSER SCHLACHT SCHLEICH ICH HEUT NACHT SO BANG
cast member
1976
Director
1975
Dr Rosenbaum
1975
[inspector's assistant]
1974
Gieshübler, chemist
1974
doctor
1973
Director
1973
Director
1972
policeman
1971
WILLI TOBLER UND DER UNTERGANG DER 6. FLOTTE
cast member
1970
Doc the detective
1969
EINER WIRD VERLETZT, TRÄUMT, STIRBT UND WIRD VERGESSEN
Director