Rainer Werner FassbinderDirector
Dirk BogardeHermann Hermann
Andréa FerréolLydia Hermann
Klaus LöwitschFelix Weber
Volker SpenglerArdalion
Bernhard WickiOrlovius
Armin MeierSilverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter KernMüller
Adrian HovenInspector Schelling
Alexander AllersonMayer
Hark BohmDoctor
Roger FritzInspector Braun
Gottfried JohnPerebrodov
Despair
- drama
- thriller
20 Sept 1978
6.5
2
1h 57min
A hysterical comedy
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.
