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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.
Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he led a highly productive profession. Before his death, Fassbinder worked on and completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays. He casted himself and others as actors in thirty-six roles. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor.
Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.