Plot
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germanys most significant postwar director His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled as well as a body of unique multilayered and multifarious work of astonishing consistency and rigour From 1969 onwards Danish director and film historian Christian Braad Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder Fassbinder Lieben ohne zu fordern is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother Lilo in the 1970s