Films about Rainer Werner Fassbinder

FassbinderinHollywood

Poster for FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD, 2002, dir. Robert Fischer

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.