Highlighted works
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Colourful farce centring on a group of bourgeois self-styled terrorists.
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A brilliant black comedy of manners about a man surely at the end of his tether…
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An exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontane’s 1896 novel, about a 17-year-old forced into marriage with an older man.
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A lonely transsexual journeys through modern Frankfurt in this dark elegy for doomed love.
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In this melancholy thriller, capitalism is the ‘plague’ and criminals are its ‘gods’.
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Overcome by anxiety, a middle-class wife and mother struggles to conform.
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Die SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS
A young sports journalist meets an ageing movie star in this eerie vision of 1950s Germany.
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Hanna Schygulla gives a star performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, as a German woman who struggles to rebuild her life after the Second World War.
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This heart-rending tale was Fassbinder’s first venture into popular melodrama.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.
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MUTTER KÜSTERS FAHRT ZUM HIMMEL
The wife of a factory worker gone murderously berserk finds herself hounded and exploited.
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Hanna Schygulla plays a girl who wants to settle down, but her free-wheeling boyfriend has other ideas.
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This ruthless dissection of a marriage is like Douglas Sirk on steroids.
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Set in the Third Reich, this forbidden love story focuses on recording star Willie Bunterberg.
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Fassbinder’s international breakthrough is an unconventional love story with devastating emotional power.
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In this funny and sad tale, Fox wins the lottery and falls in love with ‘posh and prissy’ Eugen.
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Black comedy about a left-wing poet which skewers the cult of the charismatic artist.
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ICH WILL DOCH NUR, DAß IHR MICH LIEBT
Chilling drama based on a real-life interview with a convicted murderer.
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Fassbinder’s controversial five-part TV soap opera.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s striking adaptation of Oskar Maria Graf’s novel about a small-town Bavarian stationmaster.
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Fassbinder’s two-part TV sci-fi anticipates both Blade Runner and The Matrix.
Filmography
1982
Die SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS
cook
1981
Tamara
1980
WISSEN IST MACHT UND MORGENSTUND HAT GOLD IM MUND
Frau Pums
1980
MERKE: EINEN SCHWUR KANN MAN AMPUTIEREN
Frau Pums
1980
Eine LIEBE, DAS KOSTET IMMER VIEL
Frau Pums
1980
Das AUSSERE UND DAS INNERE UND DAS GEHEIMNIS DER ANGST VOR DEM GEHEIMNIS
Frau Pums
1980
Frau Pums
1979
Production Accountant
Mother Gast1978
Sister Gudrun
1978
Frau Ehmke
1978
Müller's secretary
1977
Frau Käser
1976
bank customer
1976
ICH WILL DOCH NUR, DAß IHR MICH LIEBT
woman in post office
1975
Frau Schall
1975
MUTTER KÜSTERS FAHRT ZUM HIMMEL
secretary
1975
neighbour
1974
Marie
1974
Luise von Briest, Effi's mother
1974
wedding guest
1974
[Mrs Münchmeyer]
1973
secretary
1972
mother
1972
customer at fruit barrow
1972
housewife [part 2]
1971
Günther's mother
1970
office colleague
1970
Mrs Walsch, mother
1967
cast member