Despair
1978/09/20 (US) | Drama, Thriller
A hysterical comedy
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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director
Tom Stoppard
Screenplay
Lead 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
Budget
$ 0
Revenue
$ 0
Status
Released
Production Company
- Bavaria Studios
Crews
Vladimir Nabokov
Novel
Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography
Peer Raben
Original Music Composer
Juliane Lorenz
Editor
Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design
Dagmar Schauberger
Costume Designer