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Despair

  • 1978
  • TMDB 6.5/10
  • 1h 57m

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.

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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.

Cast

  • Dirk BogardeHermann Hermann
  • Andréa FerréolLydia Hermann
  • Klaus LöwitschFelix Weber
  • Volker SpenglerArdalion
  • Bernhard WickiOrlovius
  • Armin MeierSilverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
  • Peter KernMüller
  • Adrian HovenInspector Schelling

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