Résumés(1)
Salesman is a classic documentary about the door-to-door selling of Bibles. With this film, made in the late sixties, the brothers Albert en David Maysles set the tone not only for the direct cinema, but also for a long series of films about doorstep salesmen. For Pölynimurikauppiaat director John Webster was undoubtedly influenced by Salesman. He leads us into the world of three door-to-door sellers of vacuum cleaners in the Finnish countryside. We are introduced to Kristiina, a middle-aged housewife. She sells an average of eight vacuum cleaners a week. Not surprisingly, she is the second best salesperson of vacuum cleaners in Finland. Kimmo, on the other hand, is a greenhorn. He repeatedly fails to palm something off on people. Heimo is the prototype of the shrewd salesman. His biggest dream is to own his own company one day. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
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