Despair (1978)
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.
- Released
- 1978-09-20
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Tom Stoppard
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 48 votes
Cast
- Dirk Bogarde as Hermann Hermann
- Andréa Ferréol as Lydia Hermann
- Klaus Löwitsch as Felix Weber
- Volker Spengler as Ardalion
- Bernhard Wicki as Orlovius
- Armin Meier as Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
- Peter Kern as Müller
- Adrian Hoven as Inspector Schelling
- Alexander Allerson as Mayer
- Hark Bohm as Doctor
- Roger Fritz as Inspector Braun
- Gottfried John as Perebrodov