Death of a Salesman most important and successful night” in Hebbel-Theater in Berlin. It was said that “it was impossible to get the audience to leave the theatre” at the end of the performance. The Berlin production was more successful than New York, possibly due to better interpretation. Compared to Tennessee Williams and Beckett, Arthur Miller and his "Death of Salesman "were less influential. Rajinder Paul said that “"Death of a Salesman" has only an indirect influence on Indian theatre practitions.” However, it was translated and produced in Bengali as "'Pheriwalar Mrityu"' by the theater group Nandikar. Director Feroz Khan adapted the play in
Salesman (1969 film) of "recruit[ing] Paul Brennan, who was in the roofing and siding business, to play a bible salesman". In response, the Maysles threatened suit against "The New Yorker" and rebutted Kael's claims in an open letter sent to the magazine (which, due to "The New Yorker's" policy in 1970 of not publishing letters, did not appear in print until 1996 when it was included in the appendix to the anthology "Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary"). The letter stated, in pertinent part: In 1992, "Salesman" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of