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.

Year1971

CountryGermany

DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder

MovementNew German Cinema

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I like all Fassbinder's work, but some of his movies are much more influential for me, like Fear Eats the Soul and The Merchant of Four Seasons... His way of handling melodrama, his characters, his use of color... all of these things have been very important to me.

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Todo sobre mi madre 1999 · Pedro Almodóvar All About My Mother 1999 · Pedro Almodóvar

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