Despair
movie
A hysterical comedy
Released September 15, 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.
Cast
Dirk Bogarde
as
Hermann Hermann
Andréa Ferréol
as
Lydia Hermann
Klaus Löwitsch
as
Felix Weber
Volker Spengler
as
Ardalion
Bernhard Wicki
as
Orlovius
Armin Meier
as
Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter Kern
as
Müller
Adrian Hoven
as
Inspector Schelling
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Alexander Allerson
as
Mayer
Hark Bohm
as
Doctor
Roger Fritz
as
Inspector Braun
Gottfried John
as
Perebrodov
Crew
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as
Director
Tom Stoppard
as
Screenplay
Vladimir Nabokov
as
Novel
Michael Ballhaus
as
Director of Photography
Peer Raben
as
Original Music Composer
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Juliane Lorenz
as
Editor
Rolf Zehetbauer
as
Production Design
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Dagmar Schauberger
as
Costume Designer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as
Editor
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Dieter Minx
as
Production Supervisor
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Lutz Hengst
as
Production Executive
Antonin Artaud
as
In Memory Of