Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.

Cast

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

as Self

Dirk Bogarde

as Self

Andréa Ferréol

as Self

Florian Hopf

as Self - Interviewer

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