He also directed the TV series World on a Wire (1973) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982, aged 37, from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.

Known for his trademark leather jacket and grungy appearance, Fassbinder cruised the bar scene by night, looking for sex and drugs, yet he maintained a flawless work ethic by day.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German motion-picture and theater director, writer, and actor who was an important force in postwar West German cinema. His socially and politically conscious films …

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema.

Fassbinder made his first short films at the age of twenty, persuading a male lover to finance them in exchange for leading roles. He also applied for a place at the Berlin Film School (dffb), but …

Fassbinder repeatedly declared that in his films he "wanted to show that National Socialism wasn't an accident but a logical extension of the bourgeoisie's attitudes, which haven't altered to this …

Born on May 31, 1945 in Bad Wörishofen (Allgaeu), Rainer Werner Fassbinder grew up in Munich. He was the only child of the doctor Helmut Fassbinder and his wife, the translator …