He burned out on a cocktail of sleeping pills and cocaine aged 37, but by that point German New Wave visionary Rainer Werner Fassbinder had achieved more than most filmmakers would in two lifetimes. Powered by fierce creative energy, workaholic determination and a heroic amount of drugs and booze, the gay wunderkind made a staggering 43 films in total. In these two essential boxsets, released 25 years after his death, we get 17 of his very best.
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