Selected Documentaries on Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1970
ENDE EINER KOMMUNE
Direction: Joachim von Mengershausen. Documentary on the antiteater.
FASSBINDER PRODUZIERT: FILM NR. 8
Direction: Michael Ballhaus, Dieter Buchmann. Documentary on the shooting of The American Soldier.
1972-74
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Christian Braad Thomsen. TV documentary.
1972
GLASHAUS – TV INTERN
Direction: Martin Wiebel, Ludwig Metzger. TV discussion about Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day.
1976
JE SPÄTER DER ABEND
TV talk show
ZEITGENOSSEN: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Gert Ellinghaus. TV documentary.
1977
LEBENSLÄUFE: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Peter W. Jansen. TV documentary. DVD: Criterion (USA).
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Florian Hopf, Maximiliane Mainka. Documentary (first published 1996). DVD: e-m-s (D), Wellspring (USA).
1978
FILMARBEIT MIT DOUGLAS SIRK
Direction: Gustavo Gräf Marino. Documentary on the shooting of Bourbon Street Blues.
1980
BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ – BEOBACHTUNGEN BEI DEN DREHARBEITEN
Direction: Hans Dieter Hartl. TV documentary on the shooting of Berlin Alexanderplatz.
DOUGLAS SIRK: ÜBER STARS
Direction: Eckart Schmidt. Cast: Sirk, Fassbinder. TV documentary.
STARS IN DER MANEGE
TV show. Fassbinder appears as a magician and makes Hanna Schygulla float.
1981
CINEMANIA: R. W. FASSBINDER
Direction: Georges Bensoussan. TV documentary.
1982
GESPRÄCHE ÜBER REINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Live broadcast on June 15, 1982, presented by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, with Fassbinder’s friends and collaborators.
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER. LETZTE ARBEITEN
Direction: Wolf Gremm. Documentary on the shooting of Kamikaze 1989 and Querelle.
THE WIZARD OF BABYLON – RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER SHOOTS QUERELLE
Direction: Dieter Schidor. Documentary on the shooting of Querelle. Contains the last interview with Fassbinder, conducted on June 9, 1982.
CHAMBRE 666 (N’IMPORTE QUAND)
Direction: Wim Wenders. Cast: Fassbinder (himself). Documentary. DVD: Wild Side (F).
PORTRÄT RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Michael Strauven. TV documentary.
1985
DER MENSCH IST EIN HÄSSLICHES TIER
Direction: Rosemarie Stenzel-Quast. TV documentary.
1992
I DON’T JUST WANT YOU TO LOVE ME
Direction: Hans Günther Pflaum. TV documentary. DVD: Kinowelt (D), Criterion (USA), Carlotta (F).
ROLLENSPIELE: FRAUEN ÜBER RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Thomas Honickel. TV documentary. Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla and Rosel Zech about Fassbinder.
1995
ES IST NICHT GUT, IN EINEM MENSCHENLEIB ZU LEBEN
Direction: Peter Buchka. TV documentary.
THE MANY WOMEN OF FASSBINDER
Direction: Alessandro Colizzi. Documentary. DVD: Wellspring (USA).
1998
LIFE, LOVE & CELLULOID: A JOURNEY AND A FILM RETROSPECTIVE
Direction: Juliane Lorenz. Documentary. DVD: e-m-s (D), Wellspring (USA), Carlotta (F), Avalon (E).
2000
FÜR MICH GAB’S NUR NOCH FASSBINDER
Direction: Rosa von Praunheim. TV documentary.
SCHLAFEN KANN ICH, WENN ICH TOT BIN
TV talk show with Ingrid Caven, Günter Rohrbach, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Schmid-Ospach (presentation).
2002
FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD
Direction: Robert Fischer. Documentary. DVD: Fantoma (USA).
2005
DEUTSCHE LEBENSLÄUFE: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
Direction: Dagmar Wittmers. TV documentary.
2006
FASSBINDER’S BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ: REMASTERED. NOTES ABOUT THE RESTORATION
Direction: Juliane Lorenz. Documentary. DVD: SZ edition (D)
2007
FASSBINDER’S BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ: A MEGA MOVIE AND ITS STORY
Direction: Juliane Lorenz. Documentary.