Despair

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.

• Rainer Werner FassbinderDirector
• Tom StoppardScreenplay
• Peer RabenOriginal Music Composer

• 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