Despair
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- Runtime
- 117 mins
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.
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
- Andréa Ferréol
- Klaus Löwitsch
- Volker Spengler
- Bernhard Wicki
- Armin Meier
- Peter Kern
- Adrian Hoven
- Alexander Allerson
- Hark Bohm
- Roger Fritz
- Gottfried John
- Y Sa Lo
- Lilo Pempeit
- Ingrid Caven
- Voli Geiler
- Isolde Barth
- Gitty Djamal
- Harry Baer
- Osman Ragheb
- Hans Zander
Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producers
- Peter Märthesheimer
Screenwriter
- Tom Stoppard
