Despair (1978)

  • 12
  • 05/19/1978 (DE)
  • Drama, Thriller
  • 1h 57m

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.

Tom Stoppard

Screenplay

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director

Vladimir Nabokov

Novel

Cast

Dirk Bogarde's headshot

Dirk Bogarde

Hermann Hermann
Andréa Ferréol's headshot

Andréa Ferréol

Lydia Hermann
Klaus Löwitsch's headshot

Klaus Löwitsch

Felix Weber
Volker Spengler's headshot

Volker Spengler

Ardalion
Bernhard Wicki's headshot

Bernhard Wicki

Orlovius
Armin Meier's headshot

Armin Meier

Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter Kern's headshot

Peter Kern

Müller
Adrian Hoven's headshot

Adrian Hoven

Inspector Schelling

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