Movie

Despair (1978)

• September 20, 1978
• 1h 57m

• Drama
• Thriller

“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.

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers

Vladimir Nabokov, Tom Stoppard

Starring

Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch