Despair
1978
⏱️ 117 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
DramaThriller
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.
Crew
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Tom Stoppard
Producer
Peter Märthesheimer
Production
Bavaria Studios
Keywords
berlin, germanyhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookbusinessmanchocolateidentityparanoiaidentity crisisattempt to escapepainter