Despair

Despair

Release Date: 1978-09-15

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.

Rating: 6.4 / 10

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

as Hermann Hermann

Andréa Ferréol

Andréa Ferréol

as Lydia Hermann

Klaus Löwitsch

Klaus Löwitsch

as Felix Weber

Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler

as Ardalion

Bernhard Wicki

Bernhard Wicki

as Orlovius

Crew

  • Peer Raben - Original Music Composer

  • Vladimir Nabokov - Novel

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Director

  • Tom Stoppard - Screenplay

  • Michael Ballhaus - Director of Photography

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