Despair
A hysterical comedy
1978 | 117m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
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| Writer: | Vladimir Nabokov, Tom Stoppard |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 20, 1978 |
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| Director: | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Writer: | Vladimir Nabokov, Tom Stoppard |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller |
| Keywords | berlin, germany, chocolate, based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, republic of weimar, doppelgänger, nazism, russian emigre, 1930s |
| Production Companies | Bavaria Studios |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Dirk Bogarde | Hermann Hermann |
| Andréa Ferréol | Lydia Hermann |
| Klaus Löwitsch | Felix Weber |
| Volker Spengler | Ardalion |
| Bernhard Wicki | Orlovius |
| Armin Meier | Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman |
| Peter Kern | Müller |
| Adrian Hoven | Inspector Schelling |
| Alexander Allerson | Mayer |
| Hark Bohm | Doctor |
| Roger Fritz | Inspector Braun |
| Gottfried John | Perebrodov |
| Y Sa Lo | Elsie |
| Lilo Pempeit | Mrs. Schmidt |
| Ingrid Caven | Hotel Manager |
| Voli Geiler | 1st Landlady |
| Isolde Barth | 2nd Landlady |
| Gitty Djamal | Woman in Pension |
| Harry Baer | Innkeeper |
| Osman Ragheb | Post Office Clerck |
| Hans Zander | Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted] |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Director, Editor |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Novel |
| Peer Raben | Original Music Composer |
| Antonin Artaud | In Memory Of |
| Tom Stoppard | Screenplay |
| Michael Ballhaus | Director of Photography |
| Rolf Zehetbauer | Production Design |
| Vincent van Gogh | In Memory Of |
| Harry Baer | Assistant Director |
| Juliane Lorenz | Editor |
| Lutz Hengst | Production Executive |
| James Willis | Sound Mixer |
| Herbert Strabel | Art Direction |
| Peter Knöpfle | Makeup Artist |
| Elke Vogt | Script Supervisor |
| Don French | Unit Manager |
| Milan Bor | Sound Mixer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Jochen Schumacher | Art Direction, Set Decoration |
| Any Nöbauer | Makeup Artist |
| Christine Fritz | Assistant Editor |
| Wulf Ghastaus | Unit Manager |
| Lutz Winter | Unit Manager |
| Karin Geuer | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| John Stevenson | Boom Operator |
| Ulrich Wendt | Property Master |
| Dagmar Schauberger | Costume Designer |
| Dieter Minx | Production Supervisor |
| Unica Zürn | In Memory Of |
| Georg Kuhn | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Karl-Heinz Vogelmann | Still Photographer |
| Klaus Meyenberg | Property Master |
| Stefan Zürcher | Assistant Director |
| Ronald M. Scheich | Assistant Director |
| Rudolf Geiger | Unit Manager |
| Marcel Höhn | Unit Manager |
| Max Dietl | Costume Designer |
| Lothar Tropp | Property Master |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Peter Märthesheimer | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 2 |
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