Despair

1978

117 min

6.5

Ends at

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.

Budget

$0

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Country

Germany

Cast & Crew

Dirk Bogarde

Andréa Ferréol

Klaus Löwitsch

Volker Spengler

Bernhard Wicki

Armin Meier

Peter Kern

Adrian Hoven

Alexander Allerson

Hark Bohm

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Despair

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.

  • Dirk Bogarde

  • Andréa Ferréol

  • Klaus Löwitsch

  • Volker Spengler

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