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Filmmaker · Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Died in 1982

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born in 1945 in Bad Wörishofen, the son of a doctor and a translator, and grew up in Munich. In 1967 he joined the Action-Theater in Munich, then the following year founded the antiteater with part of the company. He made his first feature film in 1969 and in fifteen years made more than forty films, two television series and twenty-four plays. He died in Munich in 1982, aged thirty-seven, of a mixture of cocaine and sleeping pills.

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