Despair
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.
- Year: 1978
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Studio: Bavaria Studios
- Keyword: berlin, germany, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, chocolate, republic of weimar, doppelgänger, nazism, russian emigre, 1930s
- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki, Armin Meier