The Merchant of Four Seasons
Drama
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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A deeply affecting portrait of a man crushed by the weight of expectation and his own perceived failures. It's a quiet, devastating look at the hollowness that success can bring, steeped in a palpable sense of resignation.
melancholicbleakresignedsomberslow-burnGerman New Wavecharacter studynaturalisticarthousefailurefamily pressureexistential dreadself-destruction
munich, germanyforeign legionaireex-copresignationalcohol abusestreet vendor1950shealth issues
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