Salesman (1969)
- Directed by
- Albert Maysles, David Maysles
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 98 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows four door-to-door salesmen as they try to sell expensive Bibles to working-class families in the 1960s. It shows the daily grind of their job and the rejection they face.
observationalrawmundanefrustratingsympatheticexhaustingintimategrittyrealistic
What happens
Salesman is a 1969 direct cinema documentary film, directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, about door-to-door Bible salesmen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Conversations in Vermont (1969)
L'amore, questo sconosciuto (1969)
The Desperate Mission (1969)
The Revolving Door (1968)
The Bible and Gun Club (1996)
Medium Cool (1969)
Wages of Sin (1969)
Marjoe (1972)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.