Despair (1978)
In early-1930s Berlin during the Weimar Republic and the Nazis' rise to power, elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier Hermann Hermann leads a petite-bourgeois life with his voluptuous, frivolous wife Lydia. Troubled about his Jewish roots, Hermann convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger in the person of unemployed vagabond Felix, going as far as to hatch a murderous plan, intent on trading his very existence for an entirely new one. Now, Hermann's desire for transcendence is gnawing at him. Will he get over the full-blown mental breakdown and the profound despair?
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Also known as:
- (DE) Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht
- (EN) Despair
- (ES) Desesperación
- (FR) Despair
- (DK) Den desperate mand
- (BR) Despair: Uma Viagem na Luz
- (CA) Désespoir
- (FI) Kohti auringonlaskua
- (BR) Uma Viagem para a Luz
- (HU) Utazás a fénybe
- (GR) Απόγνωση
Tagged as:
- weimar republic
- madness
- nazism
- berlin
- self image
- attempt to escape
- anti-semitism
- paranoia
- identity crisis
- perfect murder
- double
- '30s
- chocolate
- wife husband relationship
- painter
- assumed identity
- russian emigre
- novel
- business man
- vagrant
- murder plot
- alienation
- insurance policy
- doppelganger
- performative
- film within a film
- mental illness
- identity
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Filmmakers
- Tom StoppardScreenplay
- Rainer Werner FassbinderDirector
- Vladimir NabokovNovel
- Michael BallhausDirector of Photography
- Juliane LorenzEditor
- Peer RabenOriginal Music Composer
- Lutz WinterUnit Manager
- Karin GeuerWardrobe Supervisor
- Lutz HengstProduction Executive
- Rolf ZehetbauerProduction Design
- Antonin ArtaudIn Memory Of
- Jochen SchumacherArt Direction
- Peter KnöpfleMakeup Artist
- Dagmar SchaubergerCostume Designer
- Milan BorSound mixer
- James WillisSound mixer
- Elke VogtScript Supervisor
- Wulf GhastausUnit Manager
- Karl-Heinz VogelmannStill Photographer
- Rainer Werner FassbinderEditor
