FrameThrower · Actors · Kurt Raab
Kurt Raab
8 films · 493 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1970–1976
Born 20 July 1941 · Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic] · died 28 June 1988
Kurt Raab was a German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 film projects.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 493 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1970–1976
- German Film Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 493 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kurt takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Kurt takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Satan’s Brew
1976 · Walter Kranz
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973 · Insp. Fritz Haarmann
Fear Of Fear
1975 · Herr Bauer
Fox and His Friends
1975 · Wodka-Peter
Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven
1975 · Barkeeper Gustav
Whity
1971 · Pianist (uncredited)
The Niklashausen Journey
1970 · Bischof
The American Soldier
1970 · Ricky's Brother
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 493 frames from Kurt Raab's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.