The Death of the Salesman (1963)

Movie
Original title	The death of the traveling salesman
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1963
length	144 minutes
Rod
Director	Michael Kehlmann
script	Arthur Miller (literary source), Ferdinand Bruckner (translation)
production	Günther Lebram (production manager), Franz Josef Wild (production)
camera	Hans Egon Koch
cut	Hilde Sessner
occupation
Leopold Rudolf : Willy Loman Charlotte Schellenberg : Linda Klausjürgen Wussow : Biff Horst Frank : Happy Friedrich Joloff : Ben Manfred Inger : Charley Edgar Mandel : Bernard Herbert Stass : Howard Lona Dubois : The woman Christiane Nielsen : Miss Forsythe Monique Ahrens : Miss Letta Ulla Moritz : Jenny Max Strassberg : Stanley

The Death of Salesman is a German TV film from 1963, which in the drama Death of a Salesman (original title: Death of a Salesman ) by Arthur Miller is based.

People and action

New York sales representative Willy Loman firmly believes in the American Dream , although he has never prospered and his sales performance is going downhill. He seems mentally confused; His older brother Ben, who emigrated to Alaska decades ago and got rich, appears to him more and more often. When a business idea from Willy's sons Biff and Happy fails and Willy is also fired, he commits suicide because he believes that his life insurance can help the family more dead than alive.

More details on the plot, the people and approaches to interpretation can be found in the article on the literary model:

See also : Death of a Salesman

production

The film was shot by Bayerischer Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time on September 12, 1963.

Web links

• The Death of Salesman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Death of the Salesman on YouTube