"More Than A Remake" – The Bitter Tears of Zahra Zand (Film Review) - FILMHOUNDS Magazine

The month of May has very special memories for Bad Wörishofen: at the beginning of May 1855 Kneipp moved into the village, 90 years later, on 31 May 1945, the later internationally recognized director and theatre author Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born here.

The world-famous director would have been 80 years old on 31 May. Fassbinder is immortalized with a mosaic on the façade at the hotel "Deutsche Eiche" in Munich.

"More Than A Remake" – The Bitter Tears of Zahra Zand (Film Review) - FILMHOUNDS Magazine

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Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder would be 80 years old today. In Munich, a plaque is now reminiscent of the director - at the place where he spent countless hours.

For Rainer Werner Fassbinder, work and life represented an inseparable unity. On May 31, 2025, the cult director would have become 80. No German filmmaker was as productive, obsessive and polarizing as Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), who left the big stage at the age of only 37. Within only 14 years, he had shot more than 40 films, two television series and several short films at this time. In addition, 24 scandalous plays and various radi…

Exactly 80 years ago, German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was born. He is considered one of the main representatives of the new German cinema, which rejected existing film trends between the 1960s and 1980s. He became famous abroad, as his films were more reserved at home.