Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  • 1978
    Little Godard

    Little Godard (1978)

    Little Godard

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    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 ra...

    Little Godard
  • 1976
    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

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    BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
  • 2011
    My Name Is Not Ali

    My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

    My Name Is Not Ali

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    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 nai...

    My Name Is Not Ali
  • 1977
    Adolf and Marlene

    Adolf and Marlene (1977)

    Adolf and Marlene

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    When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to...

    Adolf and Marlene
  • 1968
    Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt

    Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt (1968)

    Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt

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    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....

    Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt
  • 2015
    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015)

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

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    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...

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
  • 1971
    The Ancestress

    The Ancestress (1971)

    The Ancestress

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    The Ancestress
  • 1971
    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8 (1971)

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

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    About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....

    Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
  • 2012
    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun (2012)

    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

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    A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"....

    Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • 1981
    Polnischer Sommer

    Polnischer Sommer (1981)

    Polnischer Sommer

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    Polnischer Sommer
  • 1972
    Bremen Freedom

    Bremen Freedom (1972)

    Bremen Freedom

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    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 def...

    Bremen Freedom
  • 2014
    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

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    After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film....

    Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
  • 1969
    Al Capone im deutschen Wald

    Al Capone im deutschen Wald (1969)

    Al Capone im deutschen Wald

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    Al Capone im deutschen Wald
  • 2024
    Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

    Sukowa - Playful Like A Child (2024)

    Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

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    “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 film...

    Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
  • 1970
    End of the Commune?

    End of the Commune? (1970)

    End of the Commune?

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    "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 m...

    End of the Commune?
  • 1979
    Bourbon Street Blues

    Bourbon Street Blues (1979)

    Bourbon Street Blues

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    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 lan...

    Bourbon Street Blues
  • 1980
    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980)

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

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    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....

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
  • 1975
    Like a Bird on a Wire

    Like a Bird on a Wire (1975)

    Like a Bird on a Wire

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    A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke, on an series of artificial sets....

    Like a Bird on a Wire
  • 1969
    Tonys Freunde

    Tonys Freunde (1969)

    Tonys Freunde

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    Tonys Freunde
  • 1987
    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1987)

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk

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    Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES....

    Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk