The Merchant of Four Seasons

1972 · 89 min · dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Merchant of Four Seasons is a 1972 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Hans Hirschmüller and Irm Hermann. The plot follows the life of a fruit-peddler, living in 1950s Munich. "Hans - wife-beater, caricature of stunted manhood, treated like shit by his middle-class family—tries to make a little happiness of his own, and fails miserably." Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.