
Despair
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.
Top Billed Cast

Dirk Bogarde
Hermann Hermann

Andréa Ferréol
Lydia Hermann

Klaus Löwitsch
Felix Weber

Volker Spengler
Ardalion

Bernhard Wicki
Orlovius
Featured Crew

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director

Tom Stoppard
Screenplay

Vladimir Nabokov
Novel

Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography

Peer Raben
Original Music Composer
Juliane Lorenz
Editor

Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design
Dagmar Schauberger
Costume Designer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Editor
Dieter Minx
Production Supervisor
Lutz Hengst
Production Executive

Antonin Artaud
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