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.
Title | Despair |
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Year | 1978 |
Genre | Drama, Thriller |
Country | Germany |
Studio | Bavaria Studios |
Cast | Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki, Armin Meier |
Crew | Peer Raben (Original Music Composer), Vladimir Nabokov (Novel), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director), Tom Stoppard (Screenplay), Michael Ballhaus (Director of Photography), Juliane Lorenz (Editor) |
Keyword | berlin, germany, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, chocolate, republic of weimar, doppelgänger, nazism, russian emigre, 1930s |
Release | Sep 20, 1978 |
Runtime | 117 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.50 / 10 by 39 users |