Despair
1978
A hysterical comedy
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1h 57m
- September 20, 1978 · Germany
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 20, 1978
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Bavaria Studios
- Cast
- Dirk Bogarde,Andréa Ferréol,Klaus Löwitsch,Volker Spengler,Bernhard Wicki,Armin Meier,Peter Kern,Adrian Hoven,Alexander Allerson,Hark Bohmand 11 more
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writer
- Vladimir Nabokov,Tom Stoppard
- Producer
- Peter Märthesheimer
- Cinematography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Music
- Peer Raben
- Budget
- $2,600,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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