The read
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 86% of the 1,162 1970s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
88 audience votes
Key crew
- Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay
- Rainer Werner FassbinderDirector
- Rainer Werner FassbinderOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Hans HirschmüllerHans Epp
- Irm HermannIrmgard Epp
- Hanna SchygullaAnna Epp, Hans's sister
- Andrea SchoberRenate Epp, Hans's daughter
- Karl ScheydtAnzell
- Klaus LöwitschHarry
- Gusti KreisslMother Epp
- Ingrid CavenHans's great love
- Peter ChatelDr. Harlach
- Elga SorbasMarile
- Kurt RaabKurt, Hans's brother-in-law
- Hark BohmPolizei-Vorgesetzter
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Shares: Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Hanna Schygulla · Irm Hermann
Themes
munich, germanyforeign legionaireex-copresignationalcohol abusestreet vendor1950shealth issues
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