Despair

1978·117'

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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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.

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