Steven Godin’s Reviews > Love Is Colder Than Death: The Life And Times Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder > Status Update

Rainer spent twenty thousand marks for cocaine in Cannes, and in exchange for a guaranteed supply of the same drug he dealt away part of the distribution rights of what was to be his next film. It would have been titled I'm the Happiness of This World.

Between November 1969 and November 1970, Rainer produced, wrote and directed nine full-length motion pictures. Few interviewers, when given the chance, would later fail to ask him to reveal the secret of his characteristic phenomenal speed. His answers would vary little over the years. "I am extremely sure of myself," he would say, and anyone he worked with would either grow equally confident or be out of a job.