Q 01/05

Which make of sports car did Fassbinder buy four times in a single year for his lover, the actor Günther Kaufmann?

A) Porsche

B) Lamborghini

C) Ferrari

D) Aston Martin

Answer · why

B) Lamborghini

Lamborghini was the gift each time, and Kaufmann wrecked one and sold the others. Fassbinder kept casting him anyway, in 14 films.

Q 02/05

Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun ends on the day West Germany beats Hungary to win which 1954 trophy?

A) The Davis Cup

B) Olympic football gold

C) The World Cup

D) The European Cup

Answer · why

C) The World Cup

The World Cup final of 1954 is being played as Maria's home blows up in a gas explosion. The film, Fassbinder's greatest success, treats her rise as a...

Q 03/05

Lilo Pempeit, cast by Fassbinder in Effi Briest and many of his other films, was which relative of the director?

A) His mother

B) His aunt

C) His sister

D) His grandmother

Answer · why

A) His mother

His mother, a translator, took the first of her many small parts in a 1967 short. After his death she set up the foundation that looks after his films...

Q 04/05

Which cinematographer shot Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun before filming Goodfellas for Martin Scorsese?

A) Sven Nykvist

B) Robby Müller

C) Vittorio Storaro

D) Michael Ballhaus

Answer · why

D) Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus first worked with Fassbinder on the western Whity. His own small castle later served as the country estate in one of their films toge...

Q 05/05

Fassbinder's television special Like a Bird on a Wire borrows its title from a song by which Canadian singer-songwriter?

A) Neil Young

B) Leonard Cohen

C) Joni Mitchell

D) Gordon Lightfoot

Answer · why

B) Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen's song closes the programme, a forty-minute cabaret of ballads from the 1940s and 1950s. Fassbinder had already filled an earlier film w...