Despair (1978)
09/20/1978 (DE) • 1h 57m
A hysterical comedy
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.
Top Billed Cast
Hermann Hermann
Lydia Hermann
Felix Weber
Ardalion
Orlovius
Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Müller
Inspector Schelling
Mayer
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
-
Revenue
-
Keywords
berlin, germany
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
businessman
chocolate
identity
paranoia
identity crisis
attempt to escape
painter
republic of weimar
alienation
antisemitism
mental illness
madness
assumed identity
doppelgänger
insurance policy
double
vagrant
nazism
foreshadowing
russian emigre
murder plot
1930s
perfect murder
self image
film within a film
performative
dissociation
jewish ancestry
jewish wife
rise of fascism
rise of nazism
victimhood
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