Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film maker

Jan 01, 1979; Berlin, GERMANY; Enfant Terrible and The Genius of German Cinematography RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER was the main figure of the New German Cinema - cinematic movement of the late 1960s influenced by the maverick New Hollywood filmmakers. In his short life he not only made 43 films (including two shorts and the 15.5 hour Berlin Alexanderplatz), but he also worked as an actor (film and theatre), cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theatre manager. His intense discipline and phenomenal creative energy when working were in violent contrast with his flamboyant and simultaneously seedy lifestyle, his openly displayed and well advertised homosexuality, and at the same time life and love of women, the scandals, public outrages and bouts of self-pity. His death from a drug overdose at the age of 37 is often considered to mark the end of New German Cinema. Pictured while shooting Berlin-Alexanderplatz in 1979

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