Despair
“A hysterical comedy”
1978•1h 57m•6.5•Released
DramaThriller
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
Budget
$3M
Languages
English
Studio
Bavaria Studios
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
Production
Company
Bavaria Studios
Producer
Peter Märthesheimer
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