Despair
1978, Film, 119 min, Drama, History, English, Germany, MoviePedia score 66
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.
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
- Dirk Bogarde as Herman
- Andréa Ferréol as Lydia
- Klaus Löwitsch as Felix
- Volker Spengler as Ardalion
- Armin Meier as Foreman
- Peter Kern as Müller
- Adrian Hoven as Inspector Schelling
- Alexander Allerson as Mayer
- Hark Bohm as Doctor
- Roger Fritz as Inspector Braun
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