Despair (1978)
A hysterical comedy
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.
Key facts
- Released:
- 1978-09-15
- Runtime:
- 117 min
- Genres:
- Drama, Thriller
- Director:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Top cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki, Armin Meier
- Original language:
- EN
- TMDB rating:
- 6.5/10 from 47 votes
- Bynge Score:
- 6.1/10