Despair
A hysterical comedy
19781h 57mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Thriller
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- mental illness
- paranoia
- 1930s
- chocolate
- madness
- identity crisis
- alienation
- nazism
- husband wife relationship
- businessman
- germany
- identity
- berlin
- painter
- doppelgänger
- attempt to escape
- antisemitism
- murder plot
- insurance policy
- perfect murder
- assumed identity
- film within a film
- double
- self image
- vagrant
- republic of weimar
- russian emigre
- performative
- dissociation
- rise of fascism
- rise of nazism
- jewish ancestry
- jewish wife
- victimhood
- berlin, germany
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
- IMDb
- tt0077421