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Despair

Despair

6.5

Despair

NR·1978·117m

Drama

Thriller

Drama

Thriller

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.

Crew

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Novel

Vladimir Nabokov

Screenplay

Tom Stoppard

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

berlin, germany

husband wife relationship

based on novel or book

businessman

chocolate

identity

paranoia

identity crisis

attempt to escape

painter

republic of weimar

alienation

antisemitism

mental illness

madness

assumed identity

doppelgänger

insurance policy

double

vagrant

nazism

foreshadowing

russian emigre

murder plot

1930s

perfect murder

self image

film within a film

performative

dissociation

jewish ancestry

jewish wife

rise of fascism

rise of nazism

victimhood