Despair

Synopsis

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

20 Sept 1978

Directed by

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime

1h 57m

Cast

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

AA

Alexander Allerson

Mayer

Hark Bohm

Doctor

Roger Fritz

Inspector Braun

Gottfried John

Perebrodov