Movies: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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 1...

A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg....

The first R.W. Fassbinder film project. 8 mm color. Considered lost....

The migrant worker Jorgos, joins a group of young people who are usually just hanging around. He incites hostility, jealousy and also curiosity among them. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play in a Serbian adaption....

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Ant...

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

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 Str...

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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...

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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....

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....

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....

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 ...

Documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle." Features an interview with Fassbinder only ten hours before his death....

Short duco about Günter, who is handicapped....