Despair

Despair

Drama · 1978 · 1h 57m

Movie

6.5/10 · TMDB

A hysterical comedy

Overview

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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Cast & crew

Dirk BogardeHermann Hermann
Andréa FerréolLydia Hermann
Klaus LöwitschFelix Weber
Volker SpenglerArdalion
Bernhard WickiOrlovius
Armin MeierSilverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter KernMüller
Adrian HovenInspector Schelling
Alexander AllersonMayer
Hark BohmDoctor
Roger FritzInspector Braun
Gottfried JohnPerebrodov
Y Sa LoElsie
Lilo PempeitMrs. Schmidt
Ingrid CavenHotel Manager

Information

Release date
20 September 1978
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Runtime
1h 57m
Country of origin
Germany

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