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Despair

A hysterical comedy

1978 · 1h 57m

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

6.5

TMDB audience score
48 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • Dirk Bogarde
    Hermann Hermann

  • Andréa Ferréol
    Lydia Hermann

  • Klaus Löwitsch
    Felix Weber

  • Volker Spengler
    Ardalion

  • Bernhard Wicki
    Orlovius

  • Armin Meier
    Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

  • Peter Kern
    Müller

  • Adrian Hoven
    Inspector Schelling

  • Alexander Allerson
    Mayer

  • Hark Bohm
    Doctor

  • Roger Fritz
    Inspector Braun

  • Gottfried John
    Perebrodov

  • Y Sa Lo
    Elsie

  • Lilo Pempeit
    Mrs. Schmidt

  • Ingrid Caven
    Hotel Manager

  • Voli Geiler
    1st Landlady

  • Isolde Barth
    2nd Landlady

  • Gitty Djamal
    Woman in Pension