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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
FilmmakerKnown for:
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Education:
Fridl-Leonhard Studio for actors, Munich; rejected from Berlin Film School
Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed more than 40 films and television productions in 13 years before his death at 37, working at a pace that had no equivalent in European cinema. Drawing on Douglas Sirk's Hollywood melodramas, Brechtian distanciation, and the experience of postwar German society, he produced works - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) - of formal precision and emotional devastation. He died of a drug overdose in 1982.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Gear List(1)
ARRI
Connection note
Fassbinder used Arriflex cameras for his prolific output of films, including "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" (1974) and "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1979). The Arriflex was the standard camera for German productions of the period.
Product description
The Arriflex 35 BL (Blimped Lightweight), introduced in 1972, was the first self-blimped 35mm motion picture camera quiet enough for sync-sound shooting without an external housing. Its mirror-reflex viewfinder and rugged construction made it a standard tool in European and independent filmmaking from the 1970s onward.
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