Despair

Name: Despair
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 20 Sep 1978
Rating: 6.49
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki

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.

Year: 1978

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Studio: Bavaria Studios

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki, Armin Meier

Crew: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director), Tom Stoppard (Screenplay), Vladimir Nabokov (Novel), Michael Ballhaus (Director of Photography), Peer Raben (Original Music Composer), Juliane Lorenz (Editor)

Runtime: 117 minutes

Release: Sep 20, 1978

IMDb: 6.49/10 by 39 users

Popularity: 6

Country: Germany

Language: English

Budget: 0

Revenue: 0

Keyword : berlin, germany, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, chocolate, republic of weimar, doppelgänger, nazism, russian emigre, 1930s