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.
VIBE
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
munichgermanyforeign legionaireex-copresignationhealth issueshusband and wife
