Despair

6.5 1978 1h 57m Germany

Drama Thriller

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

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A hysterical comedy Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

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Directors

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers

Vladimir Nabokov, Tom Stoppard

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki, Armin Meier, Peter Kern, Adrian Hoven, Alexander Allerson, Hark Bohm, Roger Fritz, Gottfried John, Y Sa Lo, Lilo Pempeit, Ingrid Caven

Production

Bavaria Studios

Languages

English

Countries

Germany