Despair (1978)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.0 |
Directed By
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Crew
Tom Stoppard
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Vladimir Nabokov
Michael Ballhaus
Juliane Lorenz
Peer Raben
Lutz Winter
Karin Geuer
Lutz Hengst
Rolf Zehetbauer
Antonin Artaud
Jochen Schumacher
Peter Knöpfle
Dagmar Schauberger
Milan Bor
James Willis
Elke Vogt
Wulf Ghastaus
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Dieter Minx
Herbert Strabel
Harry Baer
Vincent van Gogh
Any Nöbauer
Georg Kuhn
Unica Zürn
Christine Fritz
Don French
Marcel Höhn
Milan Bor
Jochen Schumacher
John Stevenson
Lothar Tropp
Klaus Meyenberg
Ulrich Wendt
Stefan Zürcher
Ronald M. Scheich
Rudolf Geiger
Max Dietl
Peter Märthesheimer
TOP 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
Adrian Hoven
Inspector Schelling
Alexander Allerson
Mayer
Hark Bohm
Doctor
Roger Fritz
Inspector Braun
Gottfried John
Perebrodov
Y Sa Lo
Elsie
Lilo Pempeit
Mrs. Schmidt
Ingrid Caven
Hotel Manager
Voli Geiler
1st Landlady
Isolde Barth
2nd Landlady
Gitty Djamal
Woman in Pension
Harry Baer
Innkeeper
Osman Ragheb
Post Office Clerck
Hans Zander
Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]
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