Despair
DramaThrillerberlin, germanyhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookbusinessmanchocolateidentityparanoiaidentity crisisattempt to escapepainterrepublic of weimaralienationantisemitismmental illnessmadnessassumed identitydoppelgängerinsurance policydoublevagrantnazismforeshadowingrussian emigremurder plot1930sperfect murderself imagefilm within a filmperformativedissociationjewish ancestryjewish wiferise of fascismrise of nazismvictimhood
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.
Year 1978
Studio Bavaria Studios
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Crew Peer Raben (Original Music Composer), Vladimir Nabokov (Novel), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director), Tom Stoppard (Screenplay), Michael Ballhaus (Director of Photography), Juliane Lorenz (Editor)
Popularity 1
Language English
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