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Title: The Merchant of Four Seasons
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 26/05/2015
Genre: Drama
Actors: Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Audio Language: German
Runtime: 1 hour and 28 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Subtitle Language: English
Certificate: MPAA Not Rated
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor. Fassbinder had skyrocketed to renown on the acclaim of a series of trenchant, quickly made early films, but for this one he took more time and forged a new style - featuring a more complexly woven script and narrative structure and more sophisticated use of the camera, and influenced by the work of his recently discovered idol, Douglas Sirk. The result is a meticulously made, unforgiving social satire.

REVIEW
New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor. Fassbinder had skyrocketed to renown on the acclaim of a series of trenchant, quickly made early films, but for this one he took more time and forged a new style—featuring a more complexly woven script and narrative structure and more sophisticated use of the camera, and influenced by the work of his recently discovered idol, Douglas Sirk. The result is a meticulously made, unforgiving social satire.

SET CONTAINS:
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

* New 4K digital restoration
* Audio commentary featuring filmmaker Wim Wenders
* New interviews with actors Irm Hermann and Hans Hirschmüller
* New interview with film scholar Eric Rentschler
* New English subtitle translation
* PLUS: An essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser



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