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Despair

“A hysterical comedy”

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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.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writers: Tom Stoppard, Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Country: Germany
Release date: 20 September 1978
Budget: $2,600,000

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