
Feature film — 1978
Despair (1978)
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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Bavaria Studios
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Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
On screen
Cast & crew

Dirk Bogarde
Hermann Hermann

Andréa Ferréol
Lydia Hermann

Klaus Löwitsch
Felix Weber

Volker Spengler
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Bernhard Wicki
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Armin Meier
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Peter Kern
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Adrian Hoven
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Alexander Allerson
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Hark Bohm
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Roger Fritz
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Gottfried John
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