Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Also Known As: Rainer W. Fassbinder, R. W. Fassbinder, 라이너 베르너 파스빈더, Franz Walsch, Ра́йнер Ве́рнер Фасби́ндер, راينر فاسبيندر, Ράινερ Βέρνερ Φασμπίντερ, 赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德, რაინერ უერნერ ფასბინდერი, ライナー・ヴェルナー・ファスビンダー
Biography: Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays. He had tortured personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity. Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Bad Wörishofen, Germany
Birthday: May 31, 1945
Deathday: June 10, 1982
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Gender: Male
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Overview: Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-05
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Shadow of Angels
Overview: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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Veronika Voss
Overview: In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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Gods of the Plague
Overview: A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-24
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Life Stories: A Conversation with RW Fassbinder
Overview: This is a 45 minute interview with RWF in the kitchen in a house he had rented close to Paris at that time. Four years before his untimely death the interview shows a quite relaxed and patient Fassbinder who answers all kinds of (often contrafactual or at least uninformed) questions and reveals quite a lot about his childhood and current personal drama. Sober, chainsmoking but very lightheaded RWF.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-07-18
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Al Capone im deutschen Wald
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-22
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-02-11
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Katzelmacher
Overview: A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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The Wizard of Babylon
Overview: Documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle." Features an interview with Fassbinder only ten hours before his death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Overview: Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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Beware of a Holy Whore
Overview: Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Kamikaze 1989
Overview: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Overview: Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-16
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The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Overview: A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-08
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Fox and His Friends
Overview: Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Germany in Autumn
Overview: Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Overview: Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-10
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Overview: After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Overview: A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-27
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Overview: A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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The City Tramp
Overview: A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Tenderness of the Wolves
Overview: A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-07-12
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Overview: Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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The Little Chaos
Overview: Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-02
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The American Soldier
Overview: Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-09
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Bremen Freedom
Overview: A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (synopsis written by Will Gilbert)
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-11-12
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Overview: This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor - taking the leading role in the film "KAMIKAZE 1989", also directed by Wolf Gremm - and as a director working on "QUERELLE", his adaption of the work by Jean Genet.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-25
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Bourbon Street Blues
Overview: An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-22
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Baal
Overview: Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-07
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The Ancestress
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
Overview: Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-02
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Overview: About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Little Godard
Overview: The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-08
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The Niklashausen Journey
Overview: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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1 Berlin-Harlem
Overview: An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
Overview: A young man named Jürgen joins the military. As much as he tries to make a heroic career as a soldier in a rearmed West Germany, he fails utterly and ends up in a bizarre sanatorium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-05
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Mathias Kneißl
Overview: Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-05-27
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Supergirl
Overview: In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where she has landed. The men follow her wherever she goes. Marquard Bohm is no exception here - he leaves his wife in a lurch and travels with the Supergirl to Spain. The girl doesn't tell much about herself; she reports, though, about an impending threat from outer space.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Overview: An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-14
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Die Wohngenossin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-29
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Whity
Overview: "Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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Haytabo
Overview: A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
Overview: Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layered and multifarious work of astonishing consistency and rigour. From 1969 onwards, Danish director and film historian Christian Braad Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder. Fassbinder – Lieben ohne zu fordern is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother Lilo in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-07
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Fassbinder
Overview: A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-30
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Back to Room 666
Overview: What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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Polnischer Sommer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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Lili Marleen
Overview: The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
Overview: Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Room 666
Overview: During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume
Overview: Documenatry about the films of Douglas Sirk.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Overview: Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Overview: BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-02
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Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Overview: Documentary about the making of the 1980 German television series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
Overview: A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-12
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Frei bis zum nächsten Mal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-07-22
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Tonys Freunde
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-07-09
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My Name Is Not Ali
Overview: Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archive material. With openness and slight naivety the interviewees explain how “Ali” became an oriental object of projection for the Fassbinder group, while El Hedi Ben Salem, the human being, was overlooked in order to establish the foreigner as “other.” A no-frills examination of a piece of German and Munich film history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-07
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Rio das Mortes
Overview: Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-15
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Atlètic Club Banyoles
Overview: The filmmaker Albert Serra and producer Àngel Martin present their last work on the web dedicated to the club Atlètic Club Banyoles and the authentic football.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Effi Briest
Overview: When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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End of the Commune?
Overview: "End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffehouse" which also became a television-movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film-Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" were shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature-movie were given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder than Death", while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!". In this interesting documentary Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father which was a respectable doctor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-06-05
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Overview: "Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-07-16
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Overview: When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-02
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Photographer "Eise"
Overview: A portion of the Emmy award-winning documentary on the great Life Magazine photojournalist, Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eise). He photographed for over 50 years and was doing well in prewar Germany until he had to leave. This is him returning to Germany in 1982 to experience the country again and see how he felt about the new Germany. In making this film, viewers get a sense of the uniqueness of his character.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-21
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Overview: “Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.” Those who have worked with her say that what she does is true artistry. Barbara Sukowa, a star of Fassbinder’s films, an icon, and a role model. Who says there are hardly any interesting roles for women beyond forty? New challenges continually come her way. A few years past normal retirement age, she is launching into a remarkable new chapter. Sukowa – Spielen wie ein Kind (Barbara Sukowa – playful like a child) chronicles the path of an internationally successful actress to this day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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