Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Complete Filmography

This filmography has been compiled using the following sources: Fassbinder, ed. Tony Rayns, London, British Film Institute, 1980; Fassbinder, trans. Ruth McCormick, New York, Tanam Press, 1981; Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Filmemacher, Wolfgang Limmer, Hamburg, Spiegel- Verlag, 1981; Variety; The German Film Board, New York. When two dates follow the film title, the first is the year o f the film's completion, the second the year o f its fi rst showing.

Der Stadstreicher, 1965.

Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Josef Jung. Production: Roser-Film. 16 mm, b & w,
10 mins.
Cast: Christoph Roser, Susanne Schimkus, Michael Fengler, Thomas Fengler, Irm
Hermann, RWF.
Das Kleine Chaos, 1966.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Michael Fengler. Production: Roser-Film. 35 mm, b & w,
9 mins (originally 12).
Cast: Marite Grieselis, Christoph Roser, Lilo Pempeit, Greta Rehfeld, RWF.
Love I s Colder Than Death (Liebe ist kalter als der T o d ) , 1969.
Dedication: "For Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Marie Straub, Lino and
Cuncho." The track along the Landsberger Strasse was provided by Jean-Marie
Straub. Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editor: Franz Walsch
(RWF). Music: Peer Raben, Holger Munzer. Set: Ulli Lommel, RWF. Assistant
Director (for several days): Martin Muller. Production: Antiteater-X-Film. 35 mm,
b & w, 88 mins.
Cast: Ulli Lommel (Bruno), Hanna Schygulla (Joanna), RWF (Franz), Hans
Hirschmuller (Peter), Katrin Schaake (woman on train), Peter Berling (arms dealer),
Hannes Gromball (Joanna's customer), Gisela Otto, Ingrid Caven, Ursala Stratz
(prostitutes), Irm Hermann (salesgirl), Les Olvides (Georges), Wil Rabenbauer
(Jiirgen), Peter Moland (judge at syndicate trial), Anastassios Karalas (Turk), Rudolf
Waldemar Brem (motorcycle cop), Yaak Karsunke (inspector), Monika Stadler (young
girl), Kurt Raab (detective).

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Katzelmacher, 1969.
Dedication: "For Marie Luise Fleisser."
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editor: Franz Walsch (RWF). Music:
Peer Raben (after Franz Schubert). Set: RWF. Assistant Director: Michael Fengler.
Production: Antiteater-X-Film. 35 mm, b & w, 88 mins.
Cast: Hanna Schygulla (Marie), Lilith Ungerer (Helga), Elga Sorbas (Rosy), Doris
Mattes (Gunda), RWF (Jorgos), Rudolf Waldemar Brem (Paul), Hans Hirschmiiller
(Erich), Harry Baer (Franz), Peter Moland (Peter), Hannes Gromball (Klaus), Irm
Hermann (Elizabeth), Katrin Schaake (woman on Landstrasse).
Gods o f the Plague ( Gotter der Pest), 1969, 1970.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editor: Franz Walsch (RWF). Music:
Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Director: Kurt Raab. Production: Antiteater.
35 mm, b & w, 91 mins.
Cast: Harry Baer (Franz), Hanna Schygulla (Joanna), Margarethe von Trotta
(Margarethe), Gunther Kaufmann (Gunther), Carla Aulaulu (Carla), Ingrid Caven
(Magdalena Fuller), Jan George (cop), Marian Seidowske (Marian), Yaak Karsunke
(commissioner), Micha Cochina (Joe), Hannes Gromball (supermarket manager),
Lilith Ungerer (woman in cafE), Katrin Schaake (caf6 owner), Lilo Pempeit (mother),
RWF (porno dealer), Irm Hermann, Peter Moland, Doris Mattes.
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? ( Warum lauft Herr R. amok?), 1969, 1970.
Co-director: Michael Fengler. Screenplay: improvisations by Michael Fengler and
RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editors: Franz Walsch (RWF), Michael Fengler.
Music: Christian Anders. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Director: Harry Baer. Produc-
tion: Antiteater, for Maran-Film in collaboration with Suddeutscher Rundfunk. 16
mm, b & w, 88 mins.
Cast: Kurt Raab (Herr R.), Lilith Ungerer (his wife), Amadeus Fengler (their son),
Franz Maron (boss), Harry Baer, Peter Moland, Lilo Pempeit (office colleagues),
Hanna Schygulla, Peer Raben (school friends), Mr. and Mrs. Steer (father and
mother), Carla Aulaulu, Eva Pampuch (record salesgirls), Ingrid Caven, Doris Mat-
tes, Irm Hermann, Hannes Gromball (neighbors), Peter Hamm, Jochen Pinkert
(policemen), Eva Madelung (boss's sister).
Ria das Mortes, 1970.
Screenplay: RWF, from an idea by Volker Schlondorff. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann.
Editor: Thea Eym2sz. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Directors: Harry
Baer, Kurt Raab. Production: Janus Film and FernsehenIAntiteater-X-Film. 16 mm,
color, 84 mins.
Cast: Hanna Schygulla (Hanna), Michael Konig (Michel), Gunther Kaufmann
(Gunther), Katrin Schaake (Katrin), Joachim von Mengershausen (Joachim, Katrin's
boyfriend), Lilo Pempeit (Gunther's mother), Franz Maron (Hanna's uncle), Harry
Baer (Michel's colleague), Marius Aicher (boss), Carla Aulaulu (customer), Walter
Sedlmayr (secretary), Ulli Lommel (car dealer), Monika Stadler (travel-agency em-
ployee), Hanna Montezuma, Elga Sorgas (Hanna's colleagues), Kurt Raab (gas-
station attendant), Rudolf Waldemar Brem (bar patron), Carl Amery (librarian),
RWF (disco patron), Eva Pampuch (his friend).

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The Coffeehouse (Dm Kaffeehaus), 1970.

Screenplay: RWF, from a play by Carlo Goldoni. Camera: Dietbert Schmidt, Manfred
Forster. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Wilfried Minks. Production: Westdeutscher
Rundfunk. Video, b & w, 105 mins.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Vittoria), Ingrid Caven (Placida), Hanna Schygulla
(Lisaura), Kurt Raab (Don Marzio), Harry Baer (Eugenio), Hans Hirschmiiller
(Trappolo), Gunther Kaufmann (Leander), Peter Moland (Pandolfo), Wil Rabenbauer
(Ridolfo).
W i g , 1970, 1971.
Dedication: "For Peter Berling." Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Edi-
tors: Franz Walsch (RWF), Thea Eymksz. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab. Assis-
tant Director: Harry Baer. Production: Atlantis FilmIAntiteater-X-Film. 35 mm,
cinemascope, color, 95 mins.
Cast: Gunther Kaufmann (Whity), Hanna Schygulla (Hanna), Ulli Lommel (Frank),
Harry Baer (Davy), Katrin Schaake (Katherine), Ron Randall (Mr. Nicholson),
Thomas Blanco (Mexican quack), Stefano Capriati (lawyer), Elaine Baker (Whity's
mother), Mark Salvage (sheriff), Helga Ballhaus (lawyer's wife), Kurt Raab (pianist),
RWF (man in saloon).
Die Niklashauser Fart, 1970.
Screenplay: RWF, Michael Fengler. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editors: Thea
Eymksz, Franz Walsch (RWF). Music: Peer Raben, Amon Duul 11. Set: Kurt
Raab. Assistant Director: Harry Baer. Production: Janus Film and Fernsehen, for
Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 16 mm, color, 86 mins.
Cast: Michael Konig (Hans Bohm), Michael Gordon (Antonio), RWF (Black Monk),
Hanna Schygulla (Johanna), Walter Sedlmayr (priest), Margit Carstensen (Mar-
garethe), Franz Maron (her husband), Kurt Raab (Bishop), Gunther Rupp (his
counselor), Karl Scheydt (citizen), Gunther Kaufmann (leader of peasants), Siggi
Graue, Michael Fengler (peasants), Ingrid Caven (screaming woman), Elga Sorbas
(fainting woman), Carla Aulaulu (epileptic woman), Peer Raben (Monsignor), Peter
Berling (executioner), Magdalena Montezuma (Penthesilea).
The American Soldier ( Der amerikanische Soldat), 1970.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editor: Thea Eymksz. Music: Peer
Raben, "So Much Tenderness" by RWF, sung by Gunther Kaufmann. Set: Kurt
Raab, RWF. Assistant Director: Kurt Raab. Production: Antiteater. 35 mm, b & w,
80 mins.
Cast: Karl Scheydt (Ricky), Elga Sorbas (Rosa), Jan George (Jan), Margarethe von
Trotta (chambermaid), Hark Bohm (Doc), Ingrid Caven (singer), Eva Ingeborg
Scholz (Ricky's mother), Kurt Raab (Ricky's brother), Marius Aicher (policeman),
Gust1 Datz (police chief), Marquard Bohm (private detective), RWF (Franz), Katrin
Schaake (Magdalena Fuller), Ulli Lommel (gypsy), Irm Hermann (whore).
Beware o f a Holy Whore ( Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte), 1970, 1971.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editors: Franz Walsch (RWF), Thea
Eym'esz. Music: Peer Raben, Gaetano Donizetti, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Leonard

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Cohen, Spooky Tooth. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Director: Harry Baer. Production:
Antiteater-X-FilmlNova International, Rome. 35 mm, color, 103 mins.
Cast: Lou Caste1 (Jeff, director), Eddie Constantine (himself), Hanna Schygulla
(Hanna, actress), Marquard Bohm (Ricky, actor), RWF (Sascha, production mana-
ger), Ulli Lommel (Korbinian, producer), Katrin Schaake (scriptgirl), Benjamin Lev
(Candy, producer), Monika Teuber (Billi, makeup woman), Margarethe von Trotta
(production secretary), Gianni di Luigi (cameraman), Rudolf Waldemar Brem (light-
ing director), Herb Andress (coach), Thomas Schieder (Jesus), Kurt Raab (Fred),
Hannes Fuchs (David), Marcella Michelangeli (Margret), Ingrid Caven (extra),
Harry Baer (her husband), Magdalena Montezuma (Irm), Werner Schroeter (Deiters,
photographer), Karl Scheydt, Tanja Constantine, Maria Novelli, Enzo Monteduro,
Achmed Em Bark, Michael Fengler, Burghard Schlicht, Dick Randall, Peter Berling,
Tony Bianchi, Renato dei Laudadio, Gianni Javarone, Peter Gauhe, Marcello Zucche.
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Pioniere in Ingolstadt), 1970, 1971.
Screenplay: RWF, from a play by Marie Luise Fleisser. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann.
Editor: Thea Eymksz. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Director: Gun-
ther Kraa. Production: Janus Film and FernsehenIAntiteater, for Zweites Deutsches
Fernsehen. 35 mm, color, 83 mins.
Cast: Hanna Schygulla (Berta), Harry Baer (Karl), Irm Hermann (Alma), Rudolf
Waldemar Brem (Fabian), Walter Sedlmayr (Fritz), Klaus Lowitsch (sergeant-major),
Giinther Kaufmann (Max), Carla Aulaulu (Frieda), Elga Sorbas (Mariel), Burghard
Schlicht (Klaus), Gunther Kraa (Gottfried).
The Merchant o f Four Seasons (Der Hiindler der vier Jahreszeiten), 1971, 1972.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editor: Thea Eymksz. Music: "Buona
Notte" by Rocco Granata. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Director: Harry Baer. Produc-
tion: Tango Film. 35 mm, color, 89 mins.
Cast: Hans Herschmuller (Hans Epp), Irm Hermann (Irmgard, his wife), Hanna
Schygulla (Anna, his sister), Andrea Schober (Renate, his daughter), Gusti Kreissl (his
mother), Heide Simon (Heide, his married sister), Kurt Raab (Kurt, his brother-in-
law), Klaus Lowitsch (Harry), Karl Scheydt (Anzell), Ingrid Caven (Hans's "great
love"), Peter Chatel (doctor), Lilo Pempeit (customer), Walter Sedlmayr (fruit cart
seller), Salem El Hedi (Arab), Hark Bohm (policeman), Daniel Schmid, Harry Baer,
Marian Seidowski (job applicants), Michael Fengler (playboy), RWF (Zucker), Elga
Sorbas (Marile Kosemund).

f Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tranen der Petra von Kant), 1972.
The Bitter Tears o Dedication: "To him who would become Marlene." Screenplay: RWF. Camera:
Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Thea Eymksz. Music: The Platters, The Walker Brothers,
Giuseppe Verdi. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Directors: Harry Baer, Kurt Raab. Pro-
duction: Tango Film. 35 mm, color, 124 mins.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Petra von Kant), Hanna Schygulla (Karin Thimm), Irm
Hermann (Marlene), Eva Mattes (Gabrielle von Kant), Katrin Schaake (Sidonie von
Gransenabb), Gisela Fackeldey (Valerie von Kant).

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Jail Bait ( Wildwechsel), 1972.

Screenplay: RWF, from a play by Franz Xaver Kroetz. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann.
Editor: Thea Eymssz. Music: Ludwig van Beethoven. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Di-
rector: Irm Hermann. T V adaptation: Rolf Defrank. Production: Intertel, for Sender
Freies Berlin. 35 mm, color, 102 mins.
Cast: Jorg von Liebenfels (Erwin), Ruth Drexel (Hilda, his wife), Eva Mattes (Hanni,
his daughter), Harry Baer (Franz), Rudolf Waldemar Brem (Dieter), Hanna Schygulla
(doctor), Kurt Raab (boss), Karl Scheydt, Klaus Lowitsch (policemen), Irm Hermann,
Marquard Bohm (prison guards), Salem El Hedi (friend).
Eight Hours Are Not a Day (Acht Stunden sind kein Tag), 1972.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann. Editor: Marie Anne Gerhardt.
Music: Jean Gepoint (Jens Wilhelm Petersen). Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Directors:
Renate Leiffer, Eberhard Schubert. T V adaptation: Peter Marthesheimer. Produc-
tion: Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 16 mm, color, part 1: 101 mins, 11 secs; part 2: 99
mins, 31 secs; part 3: 91 mins, 56 secs; part 4: 88 mins, 53 secs; part 5: 88 mins, 53
secs.
Cast: Gottfried John (Jochen), Hanna Schygulla (Marion), Luise Ulrich (Oma),
Werner Fink (Gregor), Anita Bucher (Kathe), Wolfried Lier (Wolf), Christine Oester-
lein (Klara), Renate Roland (Monika), Kurt Raab (Harald), Andrea Schober (Sylvia),
Thorsten Massinger (Manni), Irm Hermann (Irmgard Erlkonig), Wolfgang Zerlett
(Manfred), Wolfgang Schenck (Franz), Herb Andress (Rudiger), Rudolf Waldemar
Brem (Rolf), Hans Hirschmuller (Jurgen), Peter Gauhe (Ernst), Grigorios Karipidis
(Giuseppe), Karl Scheydt (Peter), Victor Curland (Foreman Kretzschmer), Rainer
Hauer (Floor Manager Gross), Margit Carstensen, Christiane Jannessen, Doris
Mattes, Gusti Kreissl, Lilo Pempeit (housewives), Katrin Schaake, Rudolf Lenz,
Jorg von Liebenfels (landlords), Ulli Lommel, Ruth Drexel, Walter Sedlmayr, Helga
Feddersen, Heinz Meier, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Peter Chatel, Valeska Gert, Eva
Mattes, Marquard Bohm, Klaus Lowitsch, Hannes Gromball, Peter Marthesheimer.
Bremen Freedom ( Bremer Freiheit ) , 1972.
Teleplay: RWF, Dietrich Lohmann, from Fassbinder's production with the Bremen
Playhouse Ensemble. Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann, Hans Schugg,
Peter Weyrich. Editors: Friedrich Niquet, Monika Solzbacher. Set: Kurt Raab. Assis-
tant Director: Fritz Miiller-Scherz. T V adaptation: Karlhans Reuss. Production:
Telefilm Saar. Video, color, 87 mins.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Geesche), Ulli Lommel (Miltenberger), Wolfgang Schenck
(Gottfried), Walter Sedlmayr (clergyman), Wolfgang Kieling (Timm), Rudolf Walde-
mar Brem (Cousin Bohm), Kurt Raab (Zimmermann), Fritz Schediwy (Johann),
Hanna Schygulla (Luise Maurer), RWF (Rumpf), Lilo Pempeit (mother).
World on Wires ( Welt am Draht), 1973.
Screenplay: Fritz Miiller-Schert, RWF, from a novel by Daniel F. Galouye. Camera:
Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Marie Anne Gerhardt. Music: Gottfried Hungsberg. Set:
Kurt Rabb. Assistant Directors: Renate Leiffer, Fritz Muller-Scherz. T V adaptation:

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Peter Marthesheimer, Alesander Wesemann. Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

16 mm, color, part 1: 99 mins; part 2: 106 mins.
Cast: Klaus Lowitsch (Fred Stiller), Mascha Raabem (Eva), Adrian Hoven (Vollmer),
Ivan Desny (Lause), Barbara Valentin (Gloria), Karl-Heinz Vosgerau (Siskins),
Gunther Lamprecht (Wolfgang), Margit Carstensen (Schmidt-Gentner), Wolfgang
Schenk (Hahn), Joachim Hansen (Edelkern), Rudolf Lenz (Hartmann), Kurt Raab
(Holm), Karl Scheydt (Lehner), Rainer Hauer (Stuhlfaut), Ulli Lommel (Rupp),
Heinz Meier (Weinlaub), Peter Chatel (Hirse), Ingrid Caven, Eddie Constantine,
Gottfried John, Elma Karlowa, Christine Kaufmann, Rainer Langhans, Bruce Low,
Karsten Peters, Katrin Schaake, Walter Sedlmayr, Salem El Hedi, Christiane
M a ~ b a c h Rudolf , Waldemar Brem, Peter Kern, Ernst Kiisters, Peter Moland, Doris
Mattes, Liselotte Eder, Solange Pradel, Maryse Dellannoy, Werner Schroeter, Mag-
dalena Montezuma, Corinna Brocher, Peter Gauhe, Dora Karras-Frank (guests).
Nora Helmer, 1973, 1974.
Screenplay: RWF, from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, translated into German by
Gernhard Schulze. Camera: Willi Raber, Wilfried Mier, Peter Weyrich, Gisela Loew,
Hans Schugg. Editors: Anne-Marie Bornheimer, Friedrich Niquet. Set: Friedhelm
Boehm. Assistant Directors: Fritz Muller-Scherz, Rainer Langhans. Production:
Telefilm Saar, for Saarlandischer Rundfunk. Video, color, 101 mins.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Nora), Joachim Hansen (Torvald), Barbara Valentin (Mrs.
Linde), Ulli Lommel (Krogstedt), Klaus Lowitsch (Dr. Rank), Lilo Pempeit (Marie),
Irm Hermann (Helene).
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), 1973, 1974.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Jurgen Jurges. Editor: Thea Eymksz. Set: RWF. Assis-
tant Director: Rainer Langhans. Production: Tango Film. 35 mm, color, 93 mins.
Cast: Brigitte Mira (Emmi), Salem El Hedi (Ali), Barbara Valentin (Barbara), Irm
Hermann (Krista), RWF (Eugen), Karl Scheydt (Albert), Elma Karlowa (Frau
Kargus), Anita Bucher (Mrs. Ellis), Gust Kreissl (Paula), Walter Sedlmayr (grocer),
Doris Mattes (his wife), Liselotte Eder (Mrs. Munchmeyer), Marquard Bohm (Gruber,
landlord's son), Hannes Gromball (headwaiter), Katharina Herberg, Rudolf Waldemar
Brem, Peter Moland, Margit Symo, Peter Gauhe, Helga Ballhaus.
Martha, 1973, 1974.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Liesgret Schmitt-Klink. Set:
Kurt Raab. Assistant Directors: Fritz Muller-Scherz, Renate Leiffer. Production:
Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 16 mm, color, 112 mins.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Martha HyerIMartha Salomon), Karlheinz Bohm (Helmut
Salomon), Gisela Fackeldey (mother), Adrian Hoven (father), Barbara Valentin
(Marianne), Ingrid Caven (Ilse), Ortrud Beginnen (Erna), Wolfgang Schenck (boss),
Gunther Lamprecht (Dr. Salomon), Peter Chatel (Kaiser), Salem El Hedi (hotel
guest), Kurt Raab (secretary in embassy), Rudolf Lenz (porter).
E $ Briest (Fontane E $ Briest), 1974.
Screenplay: RWF, from the novel by Theodor Fontane. Camera: Dietrich Lohmann,
Jurgen Jurges. Editor: Thea Eymksz. Music: Camille Saint-Saens. Set: Kurt Raab.

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Assistant Directors: Rainer Langhans, Fritz Muller-Scherz. Production: Tango Film.

35 mm, b & w, 141 mins.
Cast: Hanna Schygulla (Effi), Wolfgang Schenck (Baron Geert von Innstetten),
Karlheinz Bohm (Counselor Wullersdorf), Ulli Lommel (Major Crampas), Ursala
Stratz (Roswitha), Irm Hermann (Johanna), Lilo Pempeit (Luise von Briest, Ems
mother), Herbert Steinmetz (Herr von Briest, Effi's father), Hark Bohm (Pharmacist
Gieshubler), Rudolf Lenz (Counselor Rummschuttel), Barbara Valentin (Marietta
Tripelli, singer), Karl Scheydt (Kruse), Theo Tecklenburg (Pastor Niemeyer),
Barbara Lass (Polish cook), Eva Mattes (Hulda), Andrea Schober (Annie), Anndorthe
Braker (Mrs. Pasche), Peter Bauhe (Cousin Dagobert), narrator: RWF, dubbed
voices: Wolfgang Hess for Ulli Lommel, Kurt Raab for Hark Bohm, Renate Kuster
for Ursala Stratz, Fred Maire for Herbert Steinmetz, Rosemarie Fendel for Lilo
Pempeit, Margit Carstensen for Irm Hermann.
Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit), 1974, 1975.
Dedication: "For Armin and all the others." Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Michael
Ballhaus. Editor: Thea Eymtsz. Music: Peer Raben Archives. Set: Kurt Raab. Assis-
tant Director: Irm Hermann. Production: Tango FilmICity Film GmbH, Berlin. 35
mm, color, 123 mins.
Cast: RWF (Franz), Peter Chatel (Eugen), Karlheinz Bohm (Max), Rudolf Lenz
(lawyer), Karl Scheydt (Klaus), Hans Zander (Springer), Kurt Raab (bartender),
Adrian Hoven (Eugen's father), Ulla Jacobsen (Eugen's mother), Harry Baer (Philip),
Irm Hermann (Madame Cherie), Kitty Buchhammer (Madame Isabell), Ursala Stratz
(Madame Antoinette), Christiane Maybach (Hedwig, Franz's sister), Peter Kern
(florist), Brigitte Mira (shop owner), Walter Sedlmayr (used-car dealer), Salem El
Hedi (Moroccan), Elma Karlowa, Barbara Valentin, Bruce Low, Evelyn Kunneke,
Ingrid Caven, Marquard Bohm, Liselotte Eder.
Like a Bird on a Wire ( Wie ein Vogel dem Draht ), 1974, 1975.
Screenplay: RWF, Christian Hohoff. Lyrics: Anja Hauptmann. Camera: Erhard
Spandel. Editor: Helga Egelhofer. Music: Ingfried Hoffmann. Orchestra: Kurt
Edelhagen. Set: Kurt Raab. T V adaptation: Rolf Spinards. Production: Westdeutscher
Rundfunk. color, 44 mins.
Cast: Brigitte Mira, Evelyn Kunneke.
Mother Kiisters Goes to Heaven (Mutter Kiisters' Fahrt t u r n Himmel), 1975.
Screenplay: RWF, Kurt Raab. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Thea Eymttsz.
Music: Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Director: Renate Leiffer. Production:
Tango Film. 35mm, color, 120 mins.
Cast: Brigitte Mira (Mother Kusters), Karlheinz Bohm (Thalmann), Margit Carstensen
(Mrs. Thdmann), Ingrid Caven (Corinna Corinne), Armin Meier (Ernst), Irm
Hermann (Helene), Gottfried John (journalist), Peter Kern (nightclub manager),
Peter Chatel, Peter Bollag (photographers), Kurt Raab, Vitus Zeplichal, Y Sa Lo, Lilo
Pempeit, Matthias Fuchs.
Fear o f Fear (Angst vor der Angst), 1975.
Screenplay: RWF, from an idea by Asta Scheib. Camera: Jurgen Jurges, Ulrich Prinz.
Editors: Liesgret Schmitt-Klink, Beate Fischer-Weiskirch. Music: Peer Raben. Set:

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Kurt Raab. Producer: Peter Marthesheimer. Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

16mm, color, 88 mins.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Margot), Ulrich Faulhaber (Kurt), Brigitte Mira (mother),
Irm Hermann (Lore), Armin Meier (Karli), Adrian Hoven (Dr. Merk), Kurt Raab
(Neighbor Bauer), Ingrid Caven (Edda), Lilo Pempeit (Mrs. Schall), Helga Marthes-
heimer (Dr. von Unruh), Herbert Steinmetz (Dr. Auer), Hark Bohm (Dr. Rozen-
baum), Constanze Haas (Bibi).

Z Only Want Y o u to Love Me (Zch will doch nur, dass Zhr mich liebt), 1976.
Screenplay: RWF, from an interview in the book Lebenslanglich by Klaus Antes and
Christiane Ehrhardt. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Liesgret Schmitt-Klink.
Music: Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab. Assistant Directors: Renate Leiffer, Christian
Hohoff. Producer: Peter Marthesheimer. Production: Bavaria Atelier GmbH (for
Westdeutscher Rundfunk). 16mm, color, 104 mins.
Cast: Vitus Zeplichal (Peter), Elke Aberle (Erika), Alexander Allerson (father), Ernie
Mangold (mother), Johanna Hofer (grandmother), Katharina Buchhammer (Ylla),
Wolfgang Hess (construction supervisor), Armin Meier (foreman), Erika Runge (in-
terviewer), Ulrich Radke (Erika's father), Annemarie Wend1 (Erika's mother), Janos
Gonczol (innkeeper), Edith Volkmann (innkeeper's wife), Robert Naegele (court
bailiff), Axel Ganz (house master), Inge Schultz (Mrs. Emmerich), Heinz H . Bern-
stein (furniture salesman), Helga Bender (boutique salesgirl), Adi Gruber (post-office
clerk), Sonja Neubauer (jewelry salesgirl), Heide Ackermann (sewing-machine sales-
woman), Reinhard Brex (building contractor).

Satan's Brew ( Satansbraten), 1976.

Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Jiirgen Jiirges (part I), Michael Ballhaus (part 2). Edi-
tors: Thea Eymttsz, Gabi Eichel. Sound: Paul Scholer, Rolf-Peter Notz, Roland
Henschke. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Kurt Raab, Ulrike Bode. Assistant Directors: Ila
von Hasperg, Christa Reeh, Renate Leiffer. Producer: Michael Fengler. Production:
Albatros Produktion, for Trio-Film. 35mm, color, 112 mins.
Cast: Kurt Raab (Walter Kranz), Margit Carstensen (Andree), Helen Vita (Luise
Kranz), Volker Spengler (Emst), Ingrid Caven (Lilly), Marquard Bohm (Rolf, her
husband), Ulli Lommel (Lauf), Y Sa Lo (Lana), Katharina Buchhammer (Irmgart
von Witzleben), Armin Meier (Stricher), Vitus Zeplichal (Urs), Dieter Schidor
(Willy), Peter Chatel (Eugen), Michael Octave (Junger), Katren Gebelein (Lilly's
mother), Helmut Petigk (Schneider), Hannes Gromball (taxi driver), Adrian Hoven
(doctor), Monika Teuber (woman in elevator).
Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette), 1976.
Screenplay: RWF. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editors: Ila von Hasperg, Juliane
Lorenz. Sound: Roland Henschke. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Curd Melber. Assistant
Director: Ila von Hasperg. Organization: Christian Hohoff, Harry Zottl, Kerstin
Dobbertin. Production: Michael Fengler; Albatros Produktion, MunichILes Films du
Losange, Paris. 35mm, color, 86 min.
Cast: Margit Carstensen (Ariane Christ), Andrea Schober (Angela Christ), Ulli
Lommel (Kolbe), Anna Karina (Irene), Mascha MCril (Traunitz), Alexander Allerson

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(Gerhard Christ), Volker Spengler (Gabriel), Brigitte Mira (Kast, his mother), Armin
Meier (gas-station attendant), Roland Henschke (beggar).
Bolwieser, 1976, 1977.
Screenplay: RWF, from the novel by Oskar Maria Graf. Camera: Michael Ballhaus.
Editors: Ila von Hasperg, Juliane Lorenz. Sound: Reinhard Gloge. Music: Peer
Raben. Set: Kurt Raab, Nico Kehrhan. Assistant Directors: Christian Hohoff, Ila von
Hasperg, Udo Kier. Costumes: Monika Altmann-Kriger. Production: Bavaria Atelier
GmbH, for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. 26mm, color, part 1: 104 mins; part 2: 96
mins.
Cast: Kurt Raab (Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser, stationmaster), Elisabeth Tris-
senaar (Hanni), Bernhard Helfrich (Frank Merkl), Udo Kier (Schafftaler), Volker
Spengler (Mangst), Armin Meier (Scherber), Karl-Heinz von Hassel (Windegger),
Gust1 Maryhammer (Neidhart, Hanni's father), Maria Singer (Mrs. Neidhart), Willi
Harlander (Stempflinger), Hannes Kaetner (Lederer), Gusti Kreissl (Mrs. Lederer),
Helmut Alimonta (Hartsmannseder), Peter Kern (Treuberger), Gottfried John
(Finkelberger), Gerhard Zwerenz (ferryman), Helmut Petigk (innkeeper), Sonja
Neudorfer (innkeeper's wife), Monika Teuber (Mariele), Nino Korda (lawyer),
Hannes Gromball (judge in district court), Alexander Allerson (chairman), Manfred
Gunther (defendant), Roland Henschke (judge in Werburg), Adolph Gruber (accused
peasant), Doris Mattes (witness), Ulrich Radke (Counsel Schneider), Liselotte Pempeit
(Mrs. Kaser), Reinhard Weiser (sailor), Elma Karlowa (nurse), Isolde Barth (first
heckler), Margot Mahler (second heckler), Renate Muhri (whore), Monica Gruber
(waitress), Katharina Buchhammer (barmaid).
Women in New York (Frauen in New York), 1977.
Screenplay: Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, translated by Nora Gray. (This is the
television film version of the play directed by RWF in Hamburg.) Camera: Michael
Ballhaus. Editor: Wolfgang Kerhutt. Sound: Horst Faahs. Set: Rolf Glittenberg.
Costumes: Frieda Parmeggiani. T V adaptation: Dieter Meichsner. Production: Nord-
deutscher Rundfunk. 16mm, color, 111 mins.
Cast: Christa Berndl (Mary, Mrs. Stephen Haines), Margit Carstensen (Sylvia,
Mrs. Howard Fowler), Anne-Marie Kuster (Peggy, Mrs. John Day), Eva Mattes
(Edith, Mrs. Phelps Potter), Angela Schmid (Nancy BlakelPrincess TamaraIMiss
Trimmerback), Heide Grub1 (Janelgymnastics instructorldesperate woman), Ehmi
Bessel (Mrs. WagstafflIngrid, the cooklfirst manager1Miss Watts, secretarylsec-
ond lady), Susanne Werth (first hairdresser, first saleswoman, first woman), Carola
Schwartz (second hairdresser, second saleswomanIHelene, lady's maid), Irm Hermann
(Olga, manicuristIMiriam), Adelheid Muther (Euphielmannequinlcigarette woman),
Ilse Bally (woman in mud packlsecond managerlfirst lady), Andrea Grosske (Miss For-
dyce, tutorlluca, cleaning womanIMaggie, cook/widow), Christina Prior (Little
Mary), Gisela Uhlen (Mrs. MoreheadICountess de Lage), Barbara Sukowa (Crystal
Allen), Henny Zschoppe (nurse), Sabine Wegener (debutante).
Despair (Eine Reise ins Licht- Despair), 1977, 1978.
Dedication: "To Antonin Artaud, Vincent van Gogh, Unica Ziirn." Screenplay: Tom
Stoppard, from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editor:

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Juliane Lorenz. Sound: James Willis. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Rolf Zehetbauer. Costumes: Dagmar Schauberger. Assistant Director: Harry Baer. Producer: Peter Marthesheimer. Production: NF Geria I1 Film GmbH, Munich, in collaboration with SFP, Paris, produced by Bavaria Atelier GmbH. 35 mm, color, 119 mins. Cast: Dirk Bogarde (Hermann Hermann), Andrea FerrCol (Lydia Hermann), Volker Spengler (Ardalion), Klaus Lowitsch (Felix Weber), Alexander Allerson (Mayer), Bernhard Wicki (Orlovius), Peter Kern (Muller), Gottfried John (Perebrodov), Adrian Hoven (inspector, Schelling), Roger Fritz (inspector, Braun), Hark Bohm (doctor), Voli Geiler (madam), Hans Zander (Muller's brother), Y Sa Lo (Elsie), Liselotte Eder (secretary), Armin Meier (foreman), Gitti Djamal (woman in prison), Ingrid Caven (hotel receptionist), Isolde Barth. Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst), 1977, 1978.
Directors: Alf Brustellin, RWF, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz,
Katja RupCIHans Peter Cloos, Volker Schlondorff, Bernhard Sinkel. (The following
information concerns the Fassbinder segment of this omnibus only .) Screenplay: RWF.
Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Sound: Roland Henschke. Pro-
duction Coordinators: Heinz Badewitz, Karl Helmer, Herbert Kerz. Production:
Pro-ject Film Production, Filmverlag der AutorenIHallelujah-FilmIKairos Film.
35mm, color and b & w, 26 mins.
Cast: RWF, Armin Meier, Liselotte Eder.
The Marriage o f Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun), 1978, 1979.
Dedication: "For Peter Zadek." Screenplay: Peter Marthesheimer, Pea Frohlich, from
an idea by RWF. Camera: Michael Ballhaus. Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Sound: Jim
Willis. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Helga Ballhaus. Set Construction: Norbert Scherer.
Costumes: Barbara Baum. Assistant Director: Rolf Buhrmann. Producer: Michael
Fengler. Production: Albatros Produktion. 35mm, color, 120 mins.
Cast: Hanna Schygulla (Maria Braun), Klaus Lowitsch (Hermann Braun), Ivan
Desny (Oswald), Gottfried John (Willi), Gisela Uhlen (mother), Giinther Lamprecht
(Wetzel), George Byrd (Bill), Elisabeth Trissenaar (Betti), Isolde Barth (Vevi), Peter
Berling (Bronski), Sonja Neuforfer (Red Cross nurse), Liselotte Eder (Mrs. Ehmke),
Volker Spengler (Schaffner), Karl-Heinz von Hassel (district attorney), Michael
Ballhaus (lawyer), Christine Hopf-de Loup (notary), Hark Bohm (Sekenberg), Dr.
Horst-Dieter Klock (man with car), Gunther Kaufmann (friend in car), Bruce Low
(friend at conference), RWF (black marketeer), Claus Holm (doctor), Anton Schirsner
(Grandpa Berger), Hannes Kaetner (registrar), Martin Haussler (reporter), Norbert
Scherer, Rolf Buhrmann, Arthur Glogau (waiters).

I n a Year o f Thirteen Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden), 1978.

ScreenplayICameralEditor: RWF. Camera Assistant: Werner Luring. Sound and

Lighting: Karl Scheydt, Wolfgang Mund. Set: Franz Vacek. Production Manager:
Isolde Barth, with the assistance of Milan Bor, Walter Bockmayer, Jo Braun, Juliane
Lorenz, Peer Raben, Volker Spengler, Alexander Witt. Production: Tango Film1
Project Film Production, Filmverlag der Autoren. 35mm, color, 134 mins.
Cast: Volker Spengler (Elvira Weishaupt), Ingrid Caven (Red Zora), Gottfried John
(Anton Seitz), Elisabeth Trissenaar (Irene), Eva Mattes (Marie-Ann), Giinther

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Kaufmann (chauffeur), Liselotte Pempeit (Sister Gudrun), Isolde Barth (Sybilline), Karl Scheydt (Hacker), Walter Blockmayer (Soul Frieda), Peter Kollek (drunk), Bob Dorsay (man in the street), Gunther Holzapfel (Seitz's bodyguard), Ursula Lillig (cleaning woman), Gerhard Zwerenz (Burghard Hauer, journalist).

The Third Generation ( D i e dritte Generation), 1979. Dedication: "To a true lover- and hence, probably, to nobody?" ScreenplayICamera: RWF. Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Sound: Milan Bor, Jean Luc MariC. Music: Peer Raben. Set Design: Raul Giminez, Volker Spengler. Technical Assistants: Ekkehard Heinrich, Hans Buckling. Assistant Director: Diana Elephant. Production Manager: Harry Baer. Production: Tango FilmIPro-ject Film Production, Filmverlag der Autoren. 35mm, color, 110 mins. Cast: Volker Spengler (August Brem), Bulle Ogier (Hilde Krieger), Hanna Schygulla (Susanne Gast), Harry Baer (Rudolf Mann), Vitus Zeplichal (Bernard von Stein), Udo Kier (Edgar Gast), Margit Carstensen (Petra Vielhaber), Gunther Kaufmann (Franz Walsch), Eddie Constantine (Peter Lenz), Raul Giminez (Paul), Y Sa Lo (Ile Neumann), Hark Bohm (Gerhard Gast), Claus Holm (Grandfather Gast), Lilo Pempeit (Mother Gast), Jurgen Draeger (Hans Vielhaber). Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1980. Screenplay: RWF, from a novel by Alfred Doblin. Camera: Xaver Schwartzenberger. Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Music: Peer Raben. Sound: Carsten Ullrich. Set: Helmut Gassner, Werner Achmann. Costumes: Barbara Baum. Production Manager: Dieter Minx. Producer: Peter Marthesheimer. Production: Bavaria Atelier GmbH, Italian Network in collaboration with Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 16mm, color, 15% hrs (13 parts and an epilogue). Cast: Gunther Lamprecht (Franz Biberkopf), Barbara Sukowa (Mieze), Gottfried John (Reinhold), Barbara Valentin (Ida), Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchreiser, Claus Holm, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, Hark Bohm, Ivan Desny, Annmarie Diiringer, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Helen Vita, Herbert Steinmetz, Gerhard Zwerenz. Lili Marleen, 1980, 1981. Screenplay: Manfred Purzer, in collaboration with RWF and Joshua Sinclair, from Lale Andersen's autobiography, Der Himmel hat viele Farben. Camera: Xaver Schwartzenberger. Artistic Assistant: Harry Baer. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Rolf Zehetbauer. Production Manager: Konstantin Torsch-Thoeren. Producer: Luggi Waldleitner, in association with Enzo Peri, Roxy-Rialto-Lex Film (Munich). 35mm, color, 120 mins. Cast: Hanna Schygulla (Willie), Giancarlo Giannini (Robert), Me1 Ferrer (David Mendelsson), Karl-Heinz von Hassel (Henkel), Hark Bohm (Taschner), Erik Schumann, Gottfried John, Karin Baal, Christine Kaufmann, Udo Kier, Roger Fritz, Rainer Will, Raul Giminez, Adrian Hoven, Willy Harlander, Barbara Valentin, Helen Vita, Elisabeth Volksman, Lilo Pempeit, Traute Hass, Brigitte Mira, Herb Andress, Michael McLernon, Jurgen Drager, Rudolf Lenz, Toni Nelzle, Irm Hermann. Lola, 1982. Screenplay: RWF, Peter Marthesheimer, Pea Frohlich. Camera: Xaver Schwartzenberger. Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Art Director: Rolf Zehetbauer. Costumes: Barbara

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Baum. Music: Peer Raben. Assistant Director: Harry Baer. Set: Raul Giminez. Pro-
duction Manager: Thomas Schuehly. Producer: Horst Wendlandt. Production: Rialto
FilmITrio Film. 35mm, color, 114 mins.
Cast: Barbara Sukowa (Lola), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Von Bohm), Mario Adorf
(Schuckert), Matthias Fuchs (Esslin), Helga Feddersen (Hettich), Karin Baal (Lola's
mother), Ivan Desny (Wittich), Karl-Heinz von Hassel (Timmerding), Sonja Neu-
dorfer (Mrs. Fink), Elisabeth Volkmann (Gigi), Hark Bohm (Volker), Rosel Zech
(Mrs. Schuckert), Isolde Barth (Mrs. Volker), Christine Kaufmann (Susi), Y Sa Lo
(Rosa), Karsten Peters (editor), Nino Korda (TV man), Raul Giminez, Udo Kier
(waiters), Harry Baer, Rainer Will (demonstrators), Andrea Heuer (librarian), Ulrike
Vigo (Little Marie), Herbert Steinmetz (Pfortner), Gunther Kaufmann (Gi), Helmut
Petigk (drunk), Juliane Lorenz (saleslady), Marita Pleyer (Rahel), Maxim Osward
(Grandpa Berger).
Veronika Voss (Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss), 1982.
Screenplay: Peter Marthesheimer, Pea Frohlich. Camera: Xaver Schwartzenberger.
Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Music: Peer Raben. Set: Rolf Zehetbauer. Costumes: Barbara
Baum. Executive Producers: Thomas Schuehly, RWF. Production: Laura Film and
Tango Film, in coproduction with Rialto Film, Trio Film, and Maran Film. 35mm,
b & w, 105 mins.
Cast: Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss), Hilmar Thate (Robert Krohn), Annmarie Duringer
(Dr. Katz), Doris Schade (Josefa), Cornelia Froboess (Henriette), Eric Schumann
(Dr. Edel), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Max Rehbein), Peter Luehr (Mr. Triebel), Brigitte
Horney (Mrs. Treibel), Elisabeth Volkmann (Crete), Hans Wypraechtiger (chief edi-
tor), Volker Spengler (first editor), Tamara Kafka (woman doctor), Karl-Heinz von
Hassel (doctor at asylum), Thomas Schuehly (propaganda minister), Sonja Neudorfer
(saleslady), Peter Zadek (film director), RWF (police superintendant).
Qurelle, 1982.
Screenplay: RWF, from the novel by Jean Genet. Camera: Xaver Schwartzenberger.
Editor: Juliane Lorenz. Music: Peer Raben. Sound: Vladimir Vizner. Set: Rolf
Zehetbauer. Costumes: Barbara Baum. Art Director: Harry Baer. Producer: Dieter
Schidor. Production: Planet Film, Munich/Gaumont, Paris. 35mm, color, cinema-
scope.
Cast: Brad Davis (Querelle), Franco Nero (Lieutenant Seblon), Jeanne Moreau
(Lysiane), Laurent Malet (Roger), Hanno Poschl (RobertIGil), Gunther Kaufmann
(Nono), Burkhard Driest (Mario), Dieter Schidor (Vic), Roger Fritz (Marcellin),
Michael McLernon (Matrose), Neil Bell (Theo), Harry Baer (Armenier), Nadja.
Brunkhorst (Paulette).