The Merchant of Four Seasons

Synopsis

Fassbinder shakes up his loose, cool reputation by diving into social satire via melodrama with the first of his films made after his deep dive into the electrifying melodramatic world of Douglas Sirk. Humorously criticizing both a broken society and the people that inhabit it, Fassbinder makes a microcosm of the struggles of a poor street fruit peddler and his many failures. A dark and funny parable about everyday people in the Germany that Fassbinder lived to critique.

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Archived on the AFS site between Thu, Jul 7 2022 and Tue, Feb 10 2026, across 5 captures. These dates are inferred from Wayback Machine captures and may not be accurate.