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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Editor Born: May 31, 1945 in Bad Wörrishofen, Bavaria, Germany Death: June 10, 1982 in Munich, West Germany Biography:Once declaring half-facetiously that he wanted to be to film "what Shakespeare was to the theater, Marx to politics, and Freud to psychology," "Rainer Werner Fassbinder" was the premiere filmmaker of the New German Cinema, famous for his prodigious, inventive output over his short career. Making over 30 features in a dozen years, as well as creating works for TV and theater, Fassbinder became renowned for his potent combination of Hollywood genre gestures and overt stylization with an acutely sensitive, critical assessment of German society. Though his style aimed to provoke a Brechtian mode of ironic distance, Fassbinder also espoused the use of the overwrought conventions of melodrama to reach visceral truths and disrupt bourgeois propriety. By the time he died in 1982 at age 36, he had long sealed his reputation as one of the most remarkable film artists of the 1970s.
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