Despair (1978)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 119 minuten
Alternative title: Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht
Country:
West Germany / France
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol and Klaus Löwitsch
IMDb score:
6,9 (2.954)
Releasedate: 20 September 1978
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Despair plot
"A hysterical comedy"
1930. Hermann Hermann, a Jewish chocolate manufacturer who fled from Russia, lives with his wife in Berlin. In addition to a midlife crisis, he suffers from a kind of paranoid schizophrenia: he keeps running into himself, finds himself observed by himself and ends up on the brink of a mental crisis. His child-wife Lydia has an extramarital affair with her 'cousin', his company is almost bankrupt and the National Socialists are on the rise. During a business trip, when he meets Felix Weber, a drifter who is said to look just like him, the idea arises to radically rid himself of his nightmares and past. For his – in his own words – 'journey to the light' – he devises an insane plan.
Actors and actresses
Hermann Hermann
Lydia Hermann
Felix Weber
Ardalion
Orlovius
Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Müller
Inspector Schelling
Mayer
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