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Author(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder

ILLUSTRATED FILM BOOKS

On May 31, 2020, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, cinephile autodidact and giant of young German films of the 1960s and 70s, would celebrate his 75th birthday. The fact that he left behind an oeuvre of 44 films on his early death in 1982, which he made in just 17 years - from Trampoline (1966) to the posthumously published Querelle (1982) - is thanks to the unconditional will to express this creative berserker and self-exploiter, who between the poetry of Brecht, the elegance of Jean-Luc Godard and the discovery of the profane for art in the sense of Warhol oscillates.


This volume of the 'Library of Classics' brings together 180 images from almost all of his films and gives the opportunity to see Fassbinder's legacy in a reunion with numerous companions whose fame he helped to establish, to celebrate. In his accompanying text, film historian Hans Helmut Prinzler pays tribute to the work of this ingenious enfant terrible of German film, and John Waters, cult director and himself an enfant terrible of American cinema, has his say with a birthday greeting. 


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9783829608954
  • : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag.
  • : January 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • : 237