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Despair( 1978)

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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

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      Dirk Bogarde

      Hermann Hermann

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      Andréa Ferréol

      Lydia Hermann

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      Klaus Löwitsch

      Felix Weber

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      Volker Spengler

      Ardalion

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      Bernhard Wicki

      Orlovius

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      Armin Meier

      Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

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      Peter Kern

      Müller

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      Adrian Hoven

      Inspector Schelling

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      Alexander Allerson

      Mayer

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      Hark Bohm

      Doctor

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      Roger Fritz

      Inspector Braun

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      Gottfried John

      Perebrodov

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      Y Sa Lo

      Elsie

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      Lilo Pempeit

      Mrs. Schmidt

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      Ingrid Caven

      Hotel Manager

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      Voli Geiler

      1st Landlady

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      Isolde Barth

      2nd Landlady

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      Gitty Djamal

      Woman in Pension

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      Harry Baer

      Innkeeper

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      Osman Ragheb

      Post Office Clerck

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      Hans Zander

      Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    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