Despair

  • Drama
  • Thriller
9/20/1978
117

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.

Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer:
Tom Stoppard
    • berlin, germany
    • husband wife relationship
    • based on novel or book
    • businessman
    • chocolate
    • identity
    • paranoia
    • identity crisis
    • attempt to escape
    • painter
    • republic of weimar
    • alienation
    • antisemitism
    • mental illness
    • madness
    • assumed identity
    • doppelgänger
    • insurance policy
    • double
    • vagrant
    • nazism
    • foreshadowing
    • russian emigre
    • murder plot
    • 1930s
    • perfect murder
    • self image
    • film within a film
    • performative
    • dissociation
    • jewish ancestry
    • jewish wife
    • rise of fascism
    • rise of nazism
    • victimhood

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    Cast

    • Dirk Bogarde
      Hermann Hermann
    • Andréa Ferréol
      Lydia Hermann
    • Klaus Löwitsch
      Felix Weber
    • Volker Spengler
      Ardalion
    • Bernhard Wicki
      Orlovius
    • Armin Meier
      Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
    • Peter Kern
      Müller
    • Adrian Hoven
      Inspector Schelling
    • Alexander Allerson
      Mayer
    • Hark Bohm
      Doctor
    • Roger Fritz
      Inspector Braun
    • Gottfried John
      Perebrodov
    • Y Sa Lo
      Elsie
    • Lilo Pempeit
      Mrs. Schmidt
    • Ingrid Caven
      Hotel Manager
    • Voli Geiler
      1st Landlady

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