Despair (1978)
September 20, 1978
Drama, Thriller
1h 57m
![Poster for Despair](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4Mw8gaRsctMEHPkjsYM5d1RkGOe.jpg)
![Backdrop for Despair](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/b0sO5XyhuqbdPvSpFxmz81IsCNR.jpg)
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Hermann Hermann Dirk Bogarde
- Lydia Hermann Andréa Ferréol
- Felix Weber Klaus Löwitsch
- Ardalion Volker Spengler
- Orlovius Bernhard Wicki
- Müller Peter Kern
- Inspector Schelling Adrian Hoven
- Doctor Hark Bohm
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Keywords
- berlin, germany
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- chocolate
- republic of weimar
- doppelgänger
- nazism
- russian emigre
- 1930s