Fassbinder (2015)

★ 6.2 1h 32m 9 votes IMDb
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A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers all the important stages from Action-Theater to the director's early death, supplemented with anecdotes.

Fassbinder

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Cast

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Self (archive footage) Died 1982 · Bad Wörishofen, Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolifi...
Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla as Self Age 82 · Chorzów, Polska Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla a...
Irm Hermann
Irm Hermann as Self Died 2020 · Munich, Germany Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without f...
Harry Baer
Harry Baer as Self Age 79 · Biberach an der Riß, Germany Harry Baer (born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947) is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder..
Hark Bohm
Hark Bohm as Self Died 2025 · Hamburg, Germany Hark Bohm (18 May 1939 – 14 November 2025) was a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the is...
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff as Self Age 87 · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-...
Director Annekatrin Hendel
Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, Volker Schlöndorff, Günter Rohrbach, Margit Carstensen, Hubert Gilli, Juliane Lorenz

Audience Reviews

tmdb68514177 3/10 May 15, 2021
Whoever thought it was necessary to kick Margit Carstensen's dogs underneath the table and use Rammstein as background music. The decision to put a modern twist on this documentary was superficial and felt like an unnecessary attempt to be different.

If anyone reading this hasn't seen Christian Braad Thomsen's documentary about Fassbinder (titled: "Fassbinder - Love Without Demands") I highly suggest you watch it. It did his life and career more justice and painted an intimate, affecting portrait of the man himself.
tmdb68514177 3/10 May 15, 2021
Whoever thought it was necessary to kick Margit Carstensen's dogs underneath the table and use Rammstein as background music. The decision to put a modern twist on this documentary was superficial and felt like an unnecessary attempt to be different.

If anyone reading this hasn't seen Christian Braad Thomsen's documentary about Fassbinder (titled: "Fassbinder - Love Without Demands") I highly suggest you watch it. It did his life and career more justice and painted an intimate, affecting portrait of the man himself.

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