Rainer Werner Fassbinder filmography

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a German filmmaker.

Filmography

All titles written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder unless stated otherwise. According to Hanna Schygulla, Fassbinder had no part in the making of Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?; it was realized from his idea by Michael Fengler, his assistant.^[1]

Year	English title	Original title	Role	Notes
1965	This Night	This Night		Short Lost
1966	The City Tramp	Der Stadtstreicher	Mann auf toiletten	Short, Uncredited
1967	The Little Chaos	Das kleine Chaos	Franz	Short
1968	With Oak Leaves and Fig Leaf [de]	Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt	Festnehmender Soldat
1969	Love Is Colder Than Death	Liebe ist kälter als der Tod	Franz Walsch	Uncredited
1969	Katzelmacher	Katzelmacher	Jorgos	Based on Fassbinder's play English title: Cock Artist, Uncredited
1970	Gods of the Plague	Götter der Pest	Pornokunde	Uncredited
1970	The Coffee Shop [fr]	Das Kaffeehaus		Video recording for German TV Based on La bottega del caffè (1750), by Carlo Goldoni
1970	Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?	Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?		Co-directed and written (improvisation instructions) with Michael Fengler
1970	The American Soldier	Der amerikanische Soldat	Franz Walsch	Uncredited
1970	The Niklashausen Journey	Die Niklashauser Fahrt	Black Monk	TV movie, Uncredited Co-directed with Michael Fengler
1970	Baal	Baal	Baal	TV movie Based on Bertolt Brecht's 1923 play Written and directed by Volker Schlöndorff
1971	Rio das Mortes	Rio das Mortes	Hannas Tanzpartner	TV movie, Uncredited
1971	Mathias Kneissl	Mathias Kneissl	Flecklbauer
1971	Whity	Whity	Saloon guest	Uncredited
1971	Beware of a Holy Whore	Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte	Sascha, Herstellungsleiter
1971	Pioneers in Ingolstadt [de]	Pioniere in Ingolstadt		TV movie Based on the 1926 play by Marieluise Fleißer
1972	The Merchant of Four Seasons	Händler der vier Jahreszeiten	Zucker / Hans's friend	Uncredited
1972	The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant		Based on Fassbinder's play
1972–1973	Eight Hours Don't Make a Day	Acht Stunden sind kein Tag		TV series, 5 episodes
1972	Bremen Freedom [de]	Bremer Freiheit	Rumpf	TV movie, Uncredited Based on Fassbinder's play
1972	Jail Bait [de]	Wildwechsel		TV movie Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's 1971 play
1973	The Tenderness of Wolves	Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe	Wittowski
1973	World on a Wire	Welt am Draht		TV movie in two parts Based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye Co-written with Fritz Müller-Scherz
1974	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Angst essen Seele auf	Eugen, Krista's husband	Uncredited Inspired by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows
1974	Nora Helmer [fr]	Nora Helmer		Video recording for German TV Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen (German translation by Bernhard Schulze)
1974	Martha	Martha		16mm TV movie Based on the story "For the Rest of Her Life" by Cornell Woolrich
1974	Effi Briest	Fontane – Effi Briest oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen	Narrator	Uncredited Based on Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel of the same name
1975	Like a Bird on a Wire	Wie ein Vogel auf dem Draht		TV movie Co-written with Christian Hohoff and Anja Hauptmann
1975	Fox and His Friends	Faustrecht der Freiheit	Franz Biberkopf	Co-written with Christian Hohoff
1975	Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven	Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel		Co-written with Kurt Raab Based on the short story "Mutter Krausens Fahrt Ins Glück" by Heinrich Zille
1975	Fear of Fear [de]	Angst vor der Angst		TV movie Based on Asta Scheib's 1974 novel Langsame Tage
1976	Shadow of Angels	Schatten der Engel	Raoul
1976	I Only Want You To Love Me	Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt		TV movie Based on the book Lebenslänglich by Klaus Antes and Christiane Erhardt
1976	Satan's Brew	Satansbraten
1976	Chinese Roulette	Chinesisches Roulette
1977	Adolfo & Marlene	Adolf und Marlene	Hermann
1977	Women in New York [de]	Frauen in New York		TV movie Based on Clare Boothe Luce's The Women
1977	The Stationmaster's Wife	Bolwieser		16mm TV movie in two parts Based on Oskar Maria Graf's 1931 novel Bolwieser: The Novel of a Husband
1978	Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film	Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film	Second Director
1978	Germany in Autumn	Deutschland im Herbst		Short omnibus film
1978	Despair	Despair – Eine Reise ins Licht		Screenplay by Tom Stoppard Based on Vladimir Nabokov's 1936 novel
1978	In a Year of 13 Moons	In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden		Director
1979	The Marriage of Maria Braun	Die Ehe der Maria Braun		Co-written with Pea Fröhlich and Peter Märthesheimer
1979	The Third Generation	Die dritte Generation	Peddler
1980	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Erzähler	Miniseries, 14 episodes Based on the Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel
1981	Lili Marleen	Lili Marleen	Günther Weissenborn	Uncredited Based on Lale Andersen autobiography Der Himmel hat viele Farben Co-written with Manfred Purzer and Joshua Sinclair
1981	Theater in Trance	Theater in Trance		Documentary
1981	Heute spielen wir den Boß	Heute spielen wir den Boß	Man	Uncredited
1981	Lola	Lola		Co-written with Pea Fröhlich and Peter Märthesheimer
1982	Veronika Voss	Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss	Kinobesucher	Uncredited Co-written with Pea Fröhlich and Peter Märthesheimer
1982	Querelle	Querelle		Based on Jean Genet's 1953 novel Querelle of Brest Co-written with Burkhard Driest
1982	Kamikaze 1989	Kamikaze 1989	Polizeileutnant Jansen	written and directed by Wolf Gremm
1983	Die Erbtöchter	Die Erbtöchter		(segment "Flüchtige Umarmungen")

Films about Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1977) – German documentary made by Florian Hopf and Maximiliane Mainka. (29 minutes)
Life Stories: A Conversation with RWF (German title: Lebensläufe – Rainer Werner Fassbinder im Gespräch, 1978) – German TV documentary made by Peter W. Jansen as part of a regular series. Contains an in-depth interview given by RWF in his Paris home. Originally aired on 18 March 1978. (48 minutes)
RWF Last Works (German title: RWF Letzte Arbeiten, 1982) – German TV documentary made by Wolf Gremm during the shooting of Kamikaze 1989 and Querelle.
Room 666 (German title: Chambre 666, 1982) – Along with a number of his peers, Fassbinder participated in this Wim Wenders documentary project. (50 minutes)
A Man Like E.V.A. [de] (German title: Ein Mann wie E.V.A., 1984) – Eva Mattes plays a fictionalized version of Fassbinder in this film directed by Radu Gabrea.(92 minutes) ^[2]
I Don't Just Want You to Love Me (1992) – German feature-length documentary on Fassbinder's career. (90 minutes)
The Women of Fassbinder (German title: Frauen über R. W. Fassbinder 1992) – German television documentary made by Thomas Honickel. Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla and (briefly) Rosel Zech are interviewed. (60 minutes)
The Many Women of Fassbinder (1997)
Life, Love and Celluloid (1998) – English language documentary film by Juliane Lorenz centring on the 1997 Museum of Modern Art retrospective in New York. Gottfried John and Günter Lamprecht are featured. (90 minutes)
Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002) – Documentary made by Robert Fischer (mainly in English) and co-written by Ulli Lommel, who also appears. Michael Ballhaus, Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders are interviewed. (57 minutes)
Fassbinder's Women (2005) – French thematic anthology of film clips. (25 minutes)
Enfant Terrible, 2020 film directed by Oskar Roehler

References

Rainer Werner Fassbinder. filmportal.de.

^ Sontag, Susan (25 February 2003). "The Imperfect Storm". The Village Voice. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
^ Canby, Vincent (26 June 1985). "Film: 'A Man Like Eva'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 June 2020.

[1] Sontag, Susan (25 February 2003). "The Imperfect Storm". The Village Voice. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

[2] Canby, Vincent (26 June 1985). "Film: 'A Man Like Eva'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 June 2020.

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v t e Works by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Filmography
Films	Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) Katzelmacher (1969) Gods of the Plague (1970) Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970) The American Soldier (1970) Whity (1971) Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Effi Briest (1974) Fear of Fear (1975) Fox and His Friends (1975) Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) Satan's Brew (1976) Chinese Roulette (1976) Germany in Autumn (1978) Despair (1978) In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) The Third Generation (1979) Lili Marleen (1981) Lola (1981) Veronika Voss (1982) Querelle (1982)
Television	The Niklashausen Journey (1970) Rio das Mortes (1971) Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972–1973) Jail Bait (1972) World on a Wire (1973) Martha (1974) I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, series)
Related	BRD Trilogy Enfant Terrible (2020 biopic) Fassbinder's Women (2000 documentary) Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors (2023 book)