Despair

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1978-09-20

A hysterical comedy
6.5
117 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Dirk Bogarde Hermann Hermann Unowned
Andréa Ferréol Lydia Hermann Unowned
Klaus Löwitsch Felix Weber Unowned
Volker Spengler Ardalion Unowned
Bernhard Wicki Orlovius Unowned
Armin Meier Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman Unowned
Peter Kern Müller Unowned
Adrian Hoven Inspector Schelling Unowned
Alexander Allerson Mayer Unowned
Hark Bohm Doctor Unowned
Roger Fritz Inspector Braun Unowned
Gottfried John Perebrodov Unowned
Y Sa Lo Elsie Unowned
Lilo Pempeit Mrs. Schmidt Unowned
Ingrid Caven Hotel Manager Unowned
Voli Geiler 1st Landlady Unowned
Isolde Barth 2nd Landlady Unowned
Gitty Djamal Woman in Pension Unowned
Harry Baer Innkeeper Unowned
Osman Ragheb Post Office Clerck Unowned
Hans Zander Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted] Unowned