Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRainer Werner Fassbinder
German film director, screenwriter, and actor
Date of Birth: 31-May-1945
Place of Birth: Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany
Date of Death: 10-Jun-1982
Profession: screenwriter, actor, playwright, cinematographer, author, television director, stage actor, film director, film producer, theater director, film editor, television actor, film actor
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German: ['?a??n? 'v???n? 'fas?b?nd?]; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R.
- W.
- Fassbinder, was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, cinematographer, editor, and essayist.
- He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. His first feature-length film was a gangster movie called Love Is Colder Than Death (1969); he scored his first domestic commercial success with The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972) and his first international success with Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), both of which are considered masterpieces by contemporary critics.
- Big-budget projects such as Despair (1978), Lili Marleen and Lola (both 1981) followed. His greatest success came with The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), chronicling the rise and fall of a German woman in the wake of World War II.
- Other notable films include The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Fox and His Friends (1975), Satan's Brew (1976), and Querelle (1982), all of which focused on gay and lesbian themes. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982, at the age of 37, from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.
- Although his career lasted less than two decades, he was extremely prolific; by the time of his death, he had completed over forty feature films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays.
Read more at Wikipedia
See Also
- Famous People's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous People's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous screenwriter's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous screenwriter's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous actor's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous actor's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous playwright's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous playwright's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous cinematographer's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous cinematographer's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous author's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous author's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous television director's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous television director's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous stage actor's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous stage actor's Birthdays in May, Germany
- Famous film director's Birthdays on 31 May, Germany
- Famous film director's Birthdays in May, Germany