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Despair (1978)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
“A hysterical comedy”
Drama, Thriller · 1h 57m
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.
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
A
Alexander Allerson
Mayer
Hark Bohm
Doctor
Roger Fritz
Inspector Braun
Gottfried John
Perebrodov
Crew
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Screenplay
- Tom Stoppard
- Novel
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Director of Photography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Original Music Composer
- Peer Raben
- Editor
- Juliane Lorenz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producer
- Peter Märthesheimer
Details
- Release date
- 1978-09-20
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Bavaria Studios
- Budget
- $2,600,000