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Despair

Despair

1978 · Movie · 117 min · ★ 6.5

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Plot, cast and details

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.

Rated 12Director: Rainer Werner FassbinderDramaThriller
  • Dirk BogardeHermann Hermann
  • Andréa FerréolLydia Hermann
  • Klaus LöwitschFelix Weber
  • Volker SpenglerArdalion
  • Bernhard WickiOrlovius
  • Armin MeierSilverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
  • Peter KernMüller
  • Adrian HovenInspector Schelling