Movie poster for Despair
TMDb Rating
6.4/10

44 verified votes

Despair (1978)

DramaThriller
117 min

"A hysterical comedy"

Plot Summary

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.

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Top Cast

Dirk BogardeAndréa FerréolKlaus LöwitschVolker SpenglerBernhard Wicki

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