Despair

Sep 20, 1978

1h 57m

★ 6.5

A hysterical comedy

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Bavaria Studios

Despair Trailers

Cast

Hermann Hermann

Dirk Bogarde

Lydia Hermann

Andréa Ferréol

Felix Weber

Klaus Löwitsch

Ardalion

Volker Spengler

Orlovius

Bernhard Wicki

Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

Armin Meier

Müller

Peter Kern

Inspector Schelling

Adrian Hoven

Mayer

Alexander Allerson

Doctor

Hark Bohm

Inspector Braun

Roger Fritz

Perebrodov

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