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Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1971)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer)
Release Date:
4 November 1971 (West Germany)
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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...
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The human spirit crushed
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hans Hirschmüller | ... | Hans Epp |
| Irm Hermann | ... | Irmgard Epp |
| Hanna Schygulla | ... | Anna Epp, Hans's sister |
| Andrea Schober | ... | Renate Epp, Hans's daughter |
| Gusti Kreissl | ... | Mother Epp |
| Klaus Löwitsch | ... | Harry Radek |
| Karl Scheydt | ... | Anzell |
| Ingrid Caven | ... | The merchant's great love |
| Kurt Raab | ... | Kurt, Heide's husband |
| Heide Simon | ... | Heide, Hans's second sister |
| Peter Chatel | ... | Dr. Harlach |
| Elga Sorbas | ... | Marile Kosemund, a whore |
| Lilo Pempeit | ... | Customer |
| Walter Sedlmayr | ... | Fruit cart salesman (as Walther Sedlmayer) |
| El Hedi ben Salem | ... | The Arab (as Salem El Heïdi) |
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
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88 min
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I didn't find this film as accessible as 'Fox & his Friends' but it was a moving portrayal of a typical Fassbinder victim figure, the eponymous barrow-boy, Hans Epp, whose hopes and dreams are eventually crushed by stultifying conformity (family & society). Some of the scenes are exaggerated (the family confrontations) but I particularly liked the sequence where Hans is desperately searching for meaning & comfort; he tries to find some peace in natural surroundings, goes back to his first lost love in order to recapture past feelings (she's only interested in a quick fling before her husband returns) and visits his sister, perhaps the only person who has any degree of sympathy for him, only to find she's too busy with work.
A poignant story of a vulnerable inarticulate man crushed by his mundane surroundings and bourgeoise, middle-class German values obsessed with economic success and a upward mobility that conveniently papers over the cracks of its more disturbing past.