Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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"INTRODUCTION

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most prominent and most prolific of the filmmakers of the New German Cinema, a revival of the once-vital German film industry after the first version had been destroyed by World War II. There were films made in Germany in the interim, but they were films associated with American companies or British companies and were primarily programmers, imitations of American melodramas, horror pictures, British mysteries, and the like. A serious German cinema simply did not exist in any degree that could capture the attention of the world market. In the 1960s, young filmmakers felt the need for a change and issued the Oberhausen Manifesto, generally regarded as the beginning of the New German Cinema, though of the 26 signatories only one, Alexander Kluge, would later achieve ..."

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