Title: Despair (Despair)
Release Date: 1978-09-15
IMDB ID: tt0077421
Vote Average: 6.5 (46 votes)
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.
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),
Crew: Peer Raben (Original Music Composer), Vladimir Nabokov (Novel), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director), Tom Stoppard (Screenplay), Michael Ballhaus (Director of Photography), Juliane Lorenz (Editor),