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Despair

A hysterical comedy

  • Movie
  • 1978
  • 1h 57m

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

6.5

TMDB audience rating
6.5 out of 10 from 48 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Dirk Bogarde

    Dirk BogardeHermann Hermann

  • Andréa Ferréol

    Andréa FerréolLydia Hermann

  • Klaus Löwitsch

    Klaus LöwitschFelix Weber

  • Volker Spengler

    Volker SpenglerArdalion

  • Bernhard Wicki

    Bernhard WickiOrlovius

  • Armin Meier

    Armin MeierSilverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

  • Peter Kern

    Peter KernMüller

  • Adrian Hoven

    Adrian HovenInspector Schelling

  • Alexander AllersonMayer

  • Hark Bohm

    Hark BohmDoctor

  • Roger Fritz

    Roger FritzInspector Braun

  • Gottfried John

    Gottfried JohnPerebrodov

  • Y Sa Lo

    Y Sa LoElsie

  • Lilo Pempeit

    Lilo PempeitMrs. Schmidt

  • Ingrid Caven

    Ingrid CavenHotel Manager

  • Voli Geiler1st Landlady

  • Isolde Barth

    Isolde Barth2nd Landlady

  • Gitty Djamal

    Gitty DjamalWoman in Pension

Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Tom Stoppard and Vladimir Nabokov
Music
Peer Raben
Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus