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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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31 May 1945 - 10 June 1982
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s whole life is the embodiment of the motto “Live fast, die young”. Born on May 31, 1945, the Bavarian lived 37 years and 10 days, making 43 films (including a fifteen-hour television series). Berlin, Alexandrplatz ) and about the same number of performances. He has won a dozen and a half prestigious cinematic awards, including the Silver Bear and the Golden Bear of the Berlin Film Festival. In 2010, his name was immortalized on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s whole life is the embodiment of the motto “Live fast, die young”. Born on May 31, 1945, the Bavarian lived 37 years and 10 days, making 43 films (including a fifteen-hour television series).
Berlin, Alexandrplatz ) and about the same number of performances. He has won a dozen and a half prestigious cinematic awards, including the Silver Bear and the Golden Bear of the Berlin Film Festival. In 2010, his name was immortalized on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin.
Having never received a certificate of secondary education and twice failed at the entrance exams to the Berlin Academy of Film and Television, Rainer nevertheless managed to try almost all professions related to cinema in one way or another. He played in cinema and theater, wrote scripts and music for his paintings, worked as a cameraman and editor, manager and producer.
The first commercial success brings the director released in 1971 film “The Merchant of the Four Seasons”, and in 1974 receives a number of prestigious awards and participates in the competitive program of the Cannes Film Festival new film Fassbinder.
"Fear eats the soul" .
Already by 1976, Fassbinder gained international fame: retrospectives of his films are in Paris, New York and Los Angeles; the analysis of his work devote their research to the world's leading film critics, major film festivals celebrate his work with honorary prizes.
He always worked in an unusually frenzied rhythm: the film
Katzelmacher It was shot in just nine days, and in 1970, seven films of the director appeared on the screens.
“I’ll sleep when they’re buried,” Fassbinder told friends. He fell asleep on the night of June 10, 1982 from an overdose of cocaine and sleeping pills. Rainer became addicted to drugs at the age of fifteen, visiting underground gay clubs. His open homosexuality is reflected in films, especially in the last film.
Katzelmacher It was released after the death of Fassbinder. Playing the main role of the sailor Kerel, Rainer captured almost his own biography, not shy of even explicit homosexual scenes with his partner in the film and former lover in real life Gunther Kaufman.