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Despair

65 %|Sep 20, 1978|Drama, Thriller

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.

Featured Crew

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director
Tom Stoppard
Screenplay
Vladimir Nabokov
Novel
Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography
Peer Raben
Original Music Composer
Juliane Lorenz
Editor
Peter Märthesheimer
Producer
Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design

Cast

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Dirk Bogarde
Hermann Hermann
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Andréa Ferréol
Lydia Hermann
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Klaus Löwitsch
Felix Weber
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Armin Meier
Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
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Peter Kern
Müller
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Adrian Hoven
Inspector Schelling
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Hark Bohm
Doctor
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Roger Fritz
Inspector Braun
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Gottfried John
Perebrodov
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Y Sa Lo
Elsie
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Lilo Pempeit
Mrs. Schmidt
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Ingrid Caven
Hotel Manager
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Voli Geiler
1st Landlady
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Isolde Barth
2nd Landlady
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Gitty Djamal
Woman in Pension
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Harry Baer
Innkeeper
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Osman Ragheb
Post Office Clerck
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Hans Zander
Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]