Despair
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1978-09-15
Runtime: 117 mins
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Original title: Despair
Production Companies: Bavaria Studios
Production Countries: Germany
Cast
Dirk Bogarde
Andréa Ferréol
Klaus Löwitsch
Volker Spengler
Bernhard Wicki
Armin Meier
Peter Kern
Adrian Hoven
Alexander Allerson
Hark Bohm
Roger Fritz
Gottfried John
Y Sa Lo
Lilo Pempeit
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