Despair 1978

A hysterical comedy

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Drama Thriller

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.

Release Date 1978-09-20
Runtime 1h 57m
Directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Ballhaus, Harry Baer, Stefan Zürcher, Ronald M. Scheich
Producer Peter Märthesheimer
Writers Tom Stoppard, Vladimir Nabokov