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Despair
“A hysterical comedy”
★ 6.5· 1978· 117 min· Popularity 112
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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.
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Release Date: 9/15/1978
Runtime: 117 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Budget: $2.6M
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Companies: Bavaria Studios
Countries: Germany
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berlin, germanyhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookbusinessmanchocolateidentityparanoiaidentity crisisattempt to escapepainterrepublic of weimaralienationantisemitismmental illnessmadnessassumed identitydoppelgängerinsurance policydoublevagrant
