Despair (1978)1h57
Drama · Thriller
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (7.3 avg)
Also directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and 37 more
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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Cast
Dirk Bogarde
Andréa Ferréol
Klaus Löwitsch
Volker Spengler
Bernhard Wicki
Armin Meier
Peter Kern
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