The Merchant of Four Seasons (Criterion Collection)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

who would both later become such important Romantic composers

notably Paris and London

Stalin's murderous terror

Mozart and Beethoven and also arranged Brahms' Violin Concerto op

with music that can excite the imagination

who hires hard-hitting private eye Steve Martin for protection

from the old Flemish Masters he himself studied

written by James Intveld

The guitars are harsh

The contemporary of Mozart

For his new recital disc

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