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Despair
Sign in to save1978 Film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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6.5Berlin, 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.
Released: 1978-09-15117 minDir: Rainer Werner FassbinderDrama, ThrillerBudget: $2.6M
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
Themes
- berlin, germany
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- businessman
- chocolate
- identity
- paranoia
- identity crisis
- attempt to escape
- painter
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- Duration
- 119
- FilmAffinity ID
- 108755
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- title
- Despair – Eine Reise ins Licht
- publication date
- 1983-01-06
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1978 drama films1978 English-language films1978 films1978 German filmsEnglish-language drama filmsEnglish-language German filmsFilms based on American novelsFilms based on Russian novelsFilms based on works by Vladimir NabokovFilms directed by Rainer Werner FassbinderFilms scored by Peer RabenFilms set in 1930Films set in BerlinFilms shot in BavariaFilms shot in BraunschweigFilms shot in HamburgGerman drama filmsTemplate film date with 2 release datesWest German films