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Published: June 11, 2012
Last month’s announcement by the German filmmaker Marco Kreuzpaintner that he would be co-writing and directing a movie about his countryman Rainer Werner Fassbinder has prompted the Fassbinder foundation to launch a competing project.
The news coincided with yesterday’s thirtieth anniversary of Fassbinder’s death at the age of 37 from drug-related causes while researching a film about Rosa Luxemburg. One of the most influential directors of the seventies, he frequently rooted his left-wing, anti-materialist, anti-bourgeois agenda in films from German history and literature, as well as in contemporary society. Read the full article on Spotlight.