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Despair
A hysterical comedy
6.5(48)19781h 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.
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writers
- Tom Stoppard
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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
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]
Crew
Directing
- Rainer Werner FassbinderDirector
- Elke VogtScript Supervisor
- Harry BaerAssistant Director
- Stefan ZürcherAssistant Director
- Ronald M. ScheichAssistant Director
Writing
- Tom StoppardScreenplay
- Vladimir NabokovNovel
Production
- Lutz WinterUnit Manager
- Lutz HengstProduction Executive
- Wulf GhastausUnit Manager
- Dieter MenzProduction Supervisor
- Don FrenchUnit Manager
- Marcel HöhnUnit Manager
- Rudolf GeigerUnit Manager
- Peter MärthesheimerProducer
Camera
- Michael BallhausDirector of Photography
- Karl-Heinz VogelmannStill Photographer
Editing
- Juliane LorenzEditor
- Rainer Werner FassbinderEditor
- Christine FritzAssistant Editor
Sound
- Peer RabenOriginal Music Composer
- Milan BorSound Mixer
- James WillisSound Mixer
- Milan BorSound Re-Recording Mixer
- John StevensonBoom Operator
Art
- Rolf ZehetbauerProduction Design
- Jochen SchumacherArt Direction
- Herbert StrabelArt Direction
- Jochen SchumacherSet Decoration
- Lothar TroppProperty Master
- Klaus MeyenbergProperty Master
- Ulrich WendtProperty Master
Costume & Make-Up
- Karin GeuerWardrobe Supervisor
- Peter KnöpfleMakeup Artist
- Dagmar SchaubergerCostume Designer
- Any NöbauerMakeup Artist
- Georg KuhnWardrobe Supervisor
- Max DietlCostume Designer
Crew
- Antonin ArtaudIn Memory Of
- Vincent van GoghIn Memory Of
- Unica ZürnIn Memory Of