Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born in Germany 1945 three weeks after the Americans had begun to occupy his town and Germany had offered their unconditional surrender. The aftermath of the second world war had a great effect on his childhood and influenced his career massively.
Fassbinder was passionate about being a filmmaker and directed over forty productions before his untimely tragic death at the age of thirty-seven. He also enjoyed being a pivotal component in all his features as nearly all his creations were either written or adapted from a book by himself this alone shows how much he loved making films. After receiving great success in Germany’s avant-garde theatre industry he made the transition into cinema with the release of three gangster films in the space of two years Love is Colder Than Death (1969), Gods of the Plague (1970) and The American Soldier (1970) these films displayed Fassbinder experimenting as a director but already displaying great talent as a filmmaker by being able to deconstruct the film noire genre, these films along with some of his other earlier productions are also political. It is apparent from his work that even though Fassbinder draws a lot of his influence from Hollywood he is subversive in his…show more content… The second set of films he released were what gave him international fame such as Fear Eats The Soul (1974) and Fox and His Friends (1975) with films created with ironic effect by parodying the Hollywood Melodramas of the
