Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982), German movie director and actor, was one of the first representatives of the New German Cinema.

He was innate in the Bavarian town of Bad Wörishofen. He died of the drug overdose at the age of 37. His dying is typically considered to mark a prevent of Future German Cinema.

Around his short life he non lone processed 43 films (including both shorts & a Fifteen 1/2 hour Berlin Alexanderplatz), but he likewise worked as an actor (film and theatre), cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theatre manager.

Fassbinder's prodigious cinematic output is legendary. Above the period of years he processed, on the average, the film each c years. His incapacitating discipline & phenonemnal originative energy whilst working were withwithin violent direct contrast using the excesses of abasement & tortured relationships of his private life sustaining a population he drew around him in a foster personal of actors, technicians & cameramen in kind to John Cassavetes.

Bibliographies

[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Germanfilmbib.html#Fassbinder Fassbinder Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)]