‘We Didn’t Know What We Were Doing’ – Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Leading Actress Talks About Surviving The Messes He Made

“His muse was Hanna Schygulla, who brought her enigmatic, haughty allure to 23 of his film and television works. Now 74, with a wild mane of grey hair, she has collaborated with directors such as Godard, Béla Tarr and Carlos Saura … But she only ever gets asked about one person. Seated in the window of an empty restaurant in west Berlin, she tells me: ‘It’s because I’m one of the survivors.'”