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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Drama - 1972
7.4
94%
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Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
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Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
88 min
Release date:
10 Feb 1972
Country:
DE
Languages:
German, Arabic
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins & 6 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder has a genius for detailing the pain of suppressed emotional states, and even at its most achingly deliberate, his style in dealing with the petit bourgeois mentality is a source of endless fascination.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
This soggy picture allows the disintegration of a human being to be almost as dull as the way he earns his living -- and that is appalling.
– Nora Sayre,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
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