Despair
A hysterical comedy
6.5(47) 1978-09-20 117 minDramaThriller
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.
Original Music ComposerPeer Raben
DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
ScreenplayTom Stoppard
ProducerPeter Märthesheimer
Cast & characters
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
Y Sa Lo
as Elsie
Lilo Pempeit
as Mrs. Schmidt
Ingrid Caven
as Hotel Manager
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Voli Geiler
as 1st Landlady
Isolde Barth
as 2nd Landlady
Gitty Djamal
as Woman in Pension
Harry Baer
as Innkeeper
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Osman Ragheb
as Post Office Clerck
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Hans Zander
as Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]
