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Despair

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"A hysterical comedy"

Duration

1h 57m

Release

15 Sept 1978

Country

Germany

Language

English

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.

Plot

In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep...

Cast

Dirk BogardeAndréa FerréolKlaus Löwitsch

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 6.9/10Rotten Tomatoes: 65%

Details

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers

Tom StoppardVladimir Nabokov

Budget

$2,600,000

Awards

3 wins & 1 nomination total

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