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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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| Known for: | The Marriage of Maria Braun, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Lola |
| Birthday: | 31 May 1945, Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany |
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Son of Lilo Pempeit
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 318-330. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
The Marriage of Maria Braun was his most successful movie
He made 41 movies in 13 years
Was a huge fan of Douglas Sirk. His movie Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a remake of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.
Whity was his least successful movie.
He and Hanna Schygulla made 23 movies together: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Bremer Freiheit, Dritte Generation, Die, Effi Briest, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Gods of the Plague, _Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1972)_ , Kaffeehaus, Das, Katzelmacher, Liebe ist kälter als der Tod, Lili Marleen, Niklashauser Fart, Die, Pioniere in Ingolstadt, Rio das Mortes, Beware of a Holy Whore, Whity, Ahnfrau - Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer, Die, Baal, Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter, Der, Mathias Kneissl and Jail Bait.
He and Irm Hermann made 24 movies together: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The American Soldier, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fear of Fear, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Effi Briest, Fox and His Friends, Gods of the Plague, Frauen in New York, _Händler der vier Jahreszeiten, Der (1972)_ , Katzelmacher, Liebe ist kälter als der Tod, Lili Marleen, _Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel (1975)_ , Nora Helmer, Pioniere in Ingolstadt, Stadtstreicher, Der, Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?, Jail Bait, Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter, Der, Mathias Kneissl, Shadow of Angels and _Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973)_ .
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1977
His death is often considered to mark the end of New German Cinema.
A school in Munich is named after him. Ironically, he left school without graduation at the age of 16 (18 July 2006).
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